ICU delirium is still a huge problem for me
My life as chronic lunger is pretty much an open book…or would that be an open Blog? In any case, I might […]
Tag: ventilator
ICU delirium got a hold on me
If you’ve suffered from asthma for any length of time and/or have been hospitalized for it, no doubt you’ve experienced some of […]
What’s it like to be intubated for asthma?
The search term “Intubation” comes up fairly often on my blog’s traffic logs, so I thought I take a moment to write […]
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 […]
15 months Intubation Free!
It feels good to brag about something positive for a change. This week marks 15 whole months since Ive had to have […]
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 […]
Back to Life
[Not lookin too bad for someone who was on a ventilator just 11 days earlier..eh?] I’m not totally out of the woods […]
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 […]
Newly discovered horror pictures
Just in time for Halloween! Some newly discovered horror show pictures. Last week while I was clearing out my cell phone, I […]
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 […]
#85
I don’t know if walking 26 miles had anything to do with this, but what started as a simple chest cold the […]