Living with Severe Asthma in these Covid Times
I can’t say for sure what its like to work on the front lines of the Covid crisis, as Im no longer […]
Tag: Intensive care unit
Train Wreck
Sub Glottic Stenosis (PGS) with asthma exacerbation. That’s how this most recent hospital admission is listed on the AVS (after visit summary). […]
One in a million
The following is about an incident that happened to me a few weeks ago involving, dare I say……… a vaccine. In a […]
ICU angels
This is a blank notebook that they give ICU patients at the hospital I go to when my asthma gets really bad. […]
23rd time’s a charm
No..not as in hospitalizations ( I’ve lost count of those,) I’m talking about my 23rd endotracheal intubation with mechanical ventilation for respiratory […]
104th trip to the slammer for Asthma
Greetings from the 14th floor isolation room a top the Moffitt building at UCSF medical center in San Francisco. Your guest host […]
Hospital stay #97
Battle scars: 4 failed arterial line attempts and 12 failed IV attempts. I have no veins left and my radial arteries are […]
Number 96
Thanks everyone for all your kind emails while I was in the slammer. The hospital volunteer who brought the messages to my […]
72 hours of hell.
I always try to write a little something about each and every hospitalization Ive experienced, but this is one Id just as […]
Propofol
This is a picture of me on a ventilator last year during a severe asthma exacerbation ( what they call status asthmaticus). […]
Number 94….a Bad One
…………..As in my 94th hospital admission for asthma. I had been feeling really crumby most of that weekend prior. My dyspnea was […]
New asthma action plan
After a record number of admissions to the intensive care unit this year, (5 so far), it was pretty evident that my […]
This is why I couldn’t race this week.
I really must get a new wardrobe. Doug took this picture with this phone cam right after I came off the breathing […]