Breathing is a good thing… 2 weeks of wheezing and hacking
are finally ending! Holy Crap! Each time I have these fairly routine rounds
of pneumonia they get harder and harder to whip! This time it took 2 rounds of antibiotics and
upping the steroids. The great news is
that I have a nebulizer (which we doubled) and Oxygen at home. The equipment and weekly nurse visits keep me
out of the hospital, and that is the best thing! Hospice is awesome!
It feels great to just feel good again and so looking
forward to taking some of my life back!
On the “damned if you do-damned if
you don’t” program we have decided to keep the steroids at a higher dosage. They do seem to make my life stronger but they
come with a “what if” kidney side effects down the road price and more of an immune
system compromise. But the risk is worth
it! This choice is an easy one for
me (and apparently easy for the docs, too). It is all about life NOW…having the
best most productive life I can get right now…After years and years and years
of the “deny pleasure, patience is a virtue, wait, save” program, it feels kind
of strange to work from an opposite point of view…but it also really does feel
kind of good, and I find myself wondering why I did not think this way much
earlier in life, not all of the time….but more of the time… I think I would
have been much happier!
"Good Life" One Republic
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