The mature (read senior) person with cystic fibrosis

[Guest guest]

You know that you are know a real member of the Salty Old Fools'

Club when the following things recur in your daily life:

1) you cannot remember how much of anything that you nebulise is,

even though the instructions are clearly on the container;

2) you can barely remember what a nebulizer or compressor might be;

3) you really cannot figure out how many enzymes to take with how

many grams of fat, protein, and wonder whether you ever did know;

4) You get ready to spray a corticosteroid spray into your nose, or simi

lar substance and start to aim for your ear;

5) You do the reverse with the ear medication and are about to snort

the stuff;

6) You are not very sure what you took this morning, if anything, and to

make it worse, those enzymes go with food, and;

7) You are not sure you have eaten, or which meal you missed;

8) You are about to lose one of you physicians because you cannot

get there on the right date, the right time, or you keep arriving one

day too early;

9) And this is really bad: is there enough gasoline in your car to get

you to the doctor and/or to the service station first, and if you do

choose to get the gasoline first, will you miss your appointment?

However, despite the above, as Kathy says, " growing old is a

privilege denied to many, " and of course to all too many with our

disease and similar conditions!

Just typing out loud, friends, assuming I will have some left after this!

Love to all at my favorite lists,

n Rojas