I'm 56. I've been a quad since 1975. john ________________________________ From: Patrick Kenneally <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Friday, May 25, 2012 12:14 AM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] pneunomia
How old are you John? Thanks, Patrick 57, 22 years post injury, C6-7 ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Thu, May 24, 2012 12:35:03 PM Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] pneunomia To that I have to ask....... I wonder how Mr Boyd is doing these days in Louisiana? Best Wishes In a message dated 5/24/2012 2:25:26 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Wow, John, is this something we all have to look forward to? I've said it before, quad life is a bitch, and as we age it just grows uglier. > >Sent from my iPad > >Begin forwarded message: > > >Resent-From: [email protected] >>From: "John S." <[email protected]> >>Date: May 24, 2012 12:50:26 EDT >>To: quad-list <[email protected]> >>Subject: Re: [QUAD-L] pneunomia >>Reply-To: "John S." <[email protected]> >> >> >I was diagnosed with COPD a few years ago with the same problems I have heard >described here. I had accepted that as an old quad it was natural that I only >got a few hours sleep a night and I often needed my emergency inhaler. Last >year I had surgery for a colostomy and a supra-pubic catheter. I spent three >days intabated on a vent. The doctor insisted I go for a sleep study. It is a >new world. I stopped breathing 93 times per hour. With a bi-pap machine I >sleep 7 1/2 to 10 hours per night. No more rescue inhaler. I was told this >is common among quads. >>I hope this helps some of you. >>bext wishes, >>john >> >> >> >>________________________________ >>From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >>To: [email protected] >>Sent: Saturday, May 19, 2012 2:23 PM >>Subject: [QUAD-L] pneunomia >> >> >>Good afternoon everybody, >> >>I'd just returning from the resort that I visited for the past three years. >>It seems I've had standing reservations within two weeks of a May 1. Funny, >>they can't diagnose me as bronchitis, pneumonia, or maybe even athletes >>foot. >> >>Seriously, for the past three years I needed to be transported to the >>hospital because of shortness of breath. In 2011 and 2012, both times were >>preceded by not being able to sleep. I tried everything to sleep except for >>prescription, within an hour and a half I was wide awake. >> >>In 2011 and 2012 I did not have a fever, then bang, a fever would start and >>within three days I was in the hospital. In 2011 I stopped breathing, but >>in 2012 just felt very short of breath and it scared the hell out of me. I >>was not having any physical symptoms other than not sleeping. On Saturday >>morning I was breathing fine, ran some errands, what flowers in a >>greenhouse, and by the end of the day my throat was sore from drainage of >>the nasal cavities. >> >>My question: does anything sound familiar? >> >>Glenn Henry >> >> >> >>=
