Re: To Sher

[Guest guest]

Pretty much my skin turned almost overnight into old lady crepe paper

skin. The skin is the largest organ and O2 deprevation doesn't pick

and choose, just destroys.

I used to have lovely hands if I say so myself.

Have a good rest, catch ya next time.

-- In Breathe-Support , " Sher Bauman "

wrote:

>

> Hey ....it was me asking about mad cow....now I understand. lol

> Oh I do relate about short-term memory....I made an appt. with my

pcp (now that the testing is finished) and her assistant asked me

where I had the Echo done.....I couldn't remember! Now that's

embarrassing! I do things like that all the time.

> Had to ask Bruce for the website for the pillow I bought, couldn't

remember and I want to buy another one it's so great.

> ......Hey Bruce.....you forgot to mail me the site..........

> I do silly things all the time to trigger my thinking.

> Steve has problems with it too. So we're in good company....each

other.

> Never heard of skin being damaged due to lack of O2....how was it

damaged and how did you know it was O2 deprivation? I keep learning

new things here!

> Well, I'm glad the mad cow is not reality. lol

> To bed for me.....I started over an hour ago!!!

>

> Mama-Sher, age 69.IPF 3/06, NSIP 4/08 OR.

> Don't fret about tomorrow, God is already there!

>

> Re: To Bruce

>

>

> No I don't really have mad cow. What I do have is an extremely

> frustating amount of short term memory loss since my DX. The mad

cow

> is a reference to Denny Crane of Boston Legal, one of my personal

> favorites. Denny has early alzheimer's and they just call it the

mad

> cow.

> I have to make myself notes, send myself emails, write things on

my

> hand just to remember simple things like get milk. It is just so

> frustrating because I can remember obscure things that make me an

> excellent partner for Trivial Pursuit. Know Rambo's first name? I

> do.

> But sometimes I can't remember doing something as simple as which

> pills I have taken. I took 2000 mg of metformin one night because

I

> forgot I had taken it already and my sugar crashed multiple times

so

> I ended up eating ice cream during the night. Not that that is a

bad

> thing really but crashing sugar is bad. I keep my pills separated

> out in a pill box now. My skin was damaged from the O2

deprivation

> in November and December of 06 so it only stands to reason the

brain

> could have been as well. So I make light of it with the mad cow.

>

>

>

>

> > >

> > > Bruce....results from Echo state:

> > > borderline concentric left ventricular hypertrophy with grade

1

> > diastolic dysfunction.

> > > Ye gads, do you know what this means?

> > > There are words like " trace aortic regurgitation....trace

> mitral

> > regurgitation...physiologic insufficiency " plus an enlarged

> heart.

> > Other than this... " normal study " . hmmmm.

> > > I guess nothing about PH but I don't know what part of the

> study that

> > may be under.

> > > If you will steer me to a website I can look this up but have

> no idea

> > where to begin. You always seem to know " how " to find

> information.......

> > > Thanks.

> > > Mama-Sher, age 69.IPF 3/06, NSIP 4/08 OR.

> > > Don't fret about tomorrow, God is already there!

> > >

> >

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