Liralen Li
13 May 2008 @ 05:59 pm
Medicines are Good  
Got to see the asthma/allergy folks today. They now have me on three meds plus my emergency med and whoooieee, I'm breathing!

And exertion isn't pushing me into scary shortness of breath. I couldn't do the allergy shot today because my reaction scared the nurses badly enough they're consulting with the doctor again on Thursday.

Thing is... my inner adrenaline junkie, now fed on various adaptations of... well... adrenaline and steroids, is occasionally jumping into my brain and going, "Oh oh oh oh come on, Come On, COME ON. Why the F-- are you GOING SO SLOW!!!"

Ahem.

I am now very glad that I did not buy the Z3 M roadster or even the other M series cars I was looking at while in the midst of my upper management high a few years ago. I am glad I did not take up a friend's offer on a good deal on an AMG series Mercedes. I am even more glad I do not have a Tesla or a motorcycle.

Because it makes the temptation mostly moot. Even as it was I was forcibly taking my foot off the accelerator of the Passat as I would just blow by everyone from the stop lights.

I now understand Jyuushiro's calm control just a little more. *laughter*
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Liralen Li
12 May 2008 @ 02:15 pm
Sigh  
Had, had, had to do some gardening today... the raspberries were taking over the whole of their bed, and leaving no room for the carrots or onions.  So I had to pull up the wanderers and replant them.  And then replant all the plants I wanted to keep in their places from where I had to upset the others.

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Liralen Li
04 May 2008 @ 10:42 pm
It's Not Really The Moon...  
... well, not the moon's fault anyway.

The pollen counts have been ramping up higher and higher.  My medication worked for the first few days I was taking it, but my flow tests have been going steadily down for the last five days, and we had a really busy weekend.

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Liralen Li
25 April 2008 @ 11:48 am
Well...  

... that's kind of conclusive in my book.

An hour and a half after I took my first shot of Advair, I blew a flow test that was 15% better.  Not better than my flow tests of the last week, but 15% better than my average for the last two months.  Of course, it does leave me a little bit jittery and I had a hard time getting to sleep last night, but that may well have been because I'm still phase shifted, PMSsy, and have a chapter and three fics and two RP moves on the brain. 

Still, this morning, to get to Jet's classroom for my volunteer stint, I took John's electric scooter instead of biking in as I didn't want to push it too much.  It was colder than I expected, as the sun's out, but the temps are still in the high 40's to 50's, not the 70's of the last few days.  Luckily, he had his insulated gloves in the basket, so I just scooted on over.  The winds are high today, which has cleared the haze and pollution from the skies, and it really has helped my eyes a lot. 

I enjoyed my ability to breath.  And the neat, simple work of copying everyone's full names, birth dates, and place of birth into their pretend, paper passports; and then the whirl of getting everyone to change out their books for their weekend reading. 

So it's been a much better morning.  And I might get a chance to go see the new Jet Li/Jackie Chan movie this afternoon.  *happy sigh*

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Liralen Li
24 April 2008 @ 03:46 pm
Well...  
The breathing test shows that I'm at about 65% of my theoretical lung capacity. So I'm almost missing one lung. 70% is functional, but not great, as there's a real risk of fibrosis if it's left at that level. 70% is where there aren't direct asthma attacks, but when a cold comes, it can more easily become bronchitis. Which, pretty much, is now the case. And, yes, I'm below that mark at the moment, so I'm having measurable problems.

The doctor's opinion is that my asthma, while it may be symptomatically good, i.e. usually I'm functional. It's still not under control. *sigh* So he wants me to go on a series of meds in conjunction with the allergy shots, and, hopefully, longterm, we'll get enough function back for me to have more lung capacity. But, good for my engineer's soul, he's doing it as an experiment. I go on the meds for a month, we'll measure at the end of that month. If there is significant improvement, then we'll stick with what he's given me for a while, and check again when I'm on maintenance with the shots.

I'm glad he was willing to work with me on that, as I hate feeling dependent on medications. Ah well.
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