Report: May2011 from justloux...

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Report on PNEUMONIA bout, not preventing, recognizing or treating it.

Thanks for asking for a report.

Haven't posted in awhile.

Haven't posted cause I didn't have anything useful to add.

Been WELL... up until, suddenly, I wasn't.

And I didn't post after the pneumonia cause I felt too stupid about contracting

it and not recognizing I was sick.

Folks DIE from pneumonia.

All the fine information and wonderful devices are no help at all ... if one's

brain cells don't 'kick-in' and the info/devices actually get USED.

Follows is the tale of what could have so easily lead to dying.

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I've been WELL, now, for so many years (THANK YOU original Godzilla/6v battery &

wire) that I'd gotten complacent, and 'forgotten'.

And when I did get sick, didn't realize I was 'sick'...just got feeling worse

and worse, 'tho not actually 'barf/sick' to the point of realizing I was SICK.

(ei:to me, 'sick' is head-cold stuff or tummy/barf sick) ...just got to the

point where for several days felt like doggiedodo, getting worse and worse, was

getting harder and harder to breathe, too, and inhaler was seemingly ineffective

at relieving the breathlessness.

Things came to more clarity when, one morning, daughter roused me and asked was

I 'ok'...that I'd still been in that same position, in bed, yesterday. Well,

pretty much, no, I wasn't ok, and had pretty much just lain still for days, not

even reading, except for occasional toileting trips the last couple of

days...and that was difficult to force myself to get up to do, lol, but

thankfully the urgency of a full bladder trumps laying still trying to ignore

it.

After daughter left for work, considered going in to see the doc after the

weekend was over, this being Fri morn.

Felt so bad, reconsidered, called doc for a 'walk-in' and FORCED self to get up,

shower, dress and drive self to the doc...who promptly hospitalized me with

pneumonia.

Pneumonia? huh? what gives? I've had asthma/crappy lungs/bronchitis my whole

life, but I'd NERVER had pneu.

So, now it's live and learn and PAY ATTENTION even more...REMEMBER what works

when you feel crappy. Perhaps leave self notes about important steps to take

when feeling crappy.

Yes, I do realize I could have probably 'fixed' the pneu IF I'd recognized that

I needed to 'do something' more than just lay still and feel crappier and

crappier and have even more difficulty breathing. Oxy deprivation, eh?

Well, life and breath are precious and appreciated.

Take care, all.

regards

Lou