![]() ![]() There may be a bit more muscle endurance (especially for big muscle groups like legs), but I'm not totally convinced of that. I am certainly able to "catch my breath" faster and resume my work out. I'd say the most obvious impact is recovery time. So, have I noticed any positive effects from the oxygen supplementation at the gym? Honestly, nothing stands out, but it is noticeable. Walking around the gym with a shoulder bag was pretty inconvenient and the backpack has proven to be a valuable upgrade. The first change I made was exchanging the shoulder bag for a backpack. Based on my needs and consumption, I am allowed up to 22 bottles a month. I am supposed to use 2 to 4 liters depending on the vigorousness of the exercise. I certainly was looking forward to (hoping for?) getting an extra boost during my workouts and not experiencing fatigue so quickly.Īfter setting up everything with home health, I received 6 mini oxygen tanks and a shoulder bag to carry the bottle around. So, with that in mind, I had high hopes for oxygen supplementation during my workouts. Starting oxygen overnight was an absolute life changer for me. At the time, I don't know that I even recognized oxygen as a treatment option while I slept. Why did I put up with sluggish mornings and headaches for a decade? Only thing I can think of is ignorance. 2009 was probably the first year in over a decade that I didn't wake up with a headache and actually felt rested in the morning. With that info, I was prescribed an oxygen concentrator to use at night with 2 liters of oxygen flowing into me as I slept. ![]() In 2009, I did an overnight sleep study that showed my oxygen saturation dipping to the lower 80's when I slept. I required 4 liters of oxygen to keep my o2 saturation above the "acceptable" number of 88%. 4169 miles, but by oxygen saturation went from a baseline of 93% (which was actually a little lower than normal) to 82% about 3 minutes into the walk. I walked pretty much as fast as my short little legs would take me. I wanted to really put my body under some stress to see how it would respond. I didn't just want to casually walk to see how my body would respond. Leading into the test, I informed them that I would really push it because that's exactly what I do in the gym. She wanted to rule out anything funky as to why I wasn't recovering quite as quickly as I did before, and the 6 minute walk test was one of the tests she ordered to get more information on my health status. At the request of our brand new adult CF doctor, I did a 6 minute walk test before I was discharged from my last hospital stay (May). I recently started a new treatment that was probably long overdue and needed for quite some time. Thank you for putting a smile on our face daily. Thank you for spending that special time with me when I fed you your bottle. Thank you for letting Mckenna carry you around like a sack of potatoes. ![]() Thank you S for being such a blessing to us. Can't go into a ton of detail, but knowing what we know, we can very happily let S go. For S, we're confident that his new home will be right where he needs to be. ![]() (As a side note, we're not closed to the idea of adoption as ultimately we don't feel it's our choice to make and God the Father will decide if and when it's right for us). We're not an adoptive home right now and we're not sure when (or if) we ever will be. He needed to be in a home that would be willing to make him their forever son if he were ever able to be adopted. As awesome as he was, we were not the right home for S. We connected with him quickly and there are things about him that we will never forget and fondly recall. He was incredibly sweet and fit into our family with ease. S was such a blessing in the short time he was with us. To be clear, the joy outweighs the sadness by a very considerable amount. It is with sadness and JOY that we send Baby S to a new home today. ![]()
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