Words from the Oxygen company are not words of encouragement

July 25, 2008

My husband called the oxygen company this morning. Also received a

special call 2 times from my pulmonologist, yesterday and this

morning about the liquid oxygen use 24/7. Pulmonologist says he can

prescribe it in the home but can not dictate to the oxygent company

HOW I may use it. The stipulations and rules for using it 24/7

connected to the liq. oxy unit itself would be very expensive for

me. They would have to bill me every month for the use. I could not

afford it. He went " round and round " in a relatively decent manner

and told my husband he would put some numbers together and see what

kind of compromise they could come up with to comply with my

request. He called about 30 min. ago and he was the owner of the

company. He was very nice and I was very nice, (crap-o-la) lets get

on with it, right??????????? hahahahaha There goes that damn sense

of humor again, better to laugh than to cry over a huge other bill I

would get. The concentrator is going to have to suffice at this

time. The Medicare and insurance company will only pay so much per

month and the oxygen company would end up with a tremendous loss.

Boooooeeeyyyyyy!!!!

O well, can only use liq. oxy. tank to refill helios and companion to

use when I go out. I could (dishonestly) use them in the house on

wheels, how would they know I went out????????????????? I am not

like that and knowing I was not being honest, I would probably trip

on the wheely cart and fall and break my hip and legs and trip over

the dog and kill her, then trip over all the fans running at high

speed in this apt., then the neighbors would hear all the noise and

come knocking at my door, of which I would trip over the 55' tubing I

am carrying around 24/7 and fall into the front door, opening it and

knocking down the neighbors and breaking their hips and legs, and we

could all end up in the hospital together, LET YOU GUYS KNOW, then

you could all send us greetings cards in the hospital during our VERY

long stay.

I LOVE YOU THIS DAY !!

MARY LOU (74) RICHMOND VA

IPF '02

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