Editor’s Note There is no reason why you can’t make every day of the year a vacation or a new adventure! Do something new with an old friend. I recently went on a guided bus tour of my own local town in Florida and found out things that I was totally unaware of – there…
Respiratory News To keep up on the latest pulmonary news, click on the link on the home page of www.pulmonarypaper.org. Researchers from Thomas Jefferson Uni- versity are warning that heavy drinking can also take a toll on the lungs as well as your liver. The alcohol may damage your lungs’ immune system, leaving…
Travel News Meet Troy and Dessie Lofton Determined Travelers and Travel Agent Make Dream Trip Happen! introduce you to Troy Lofton.hink because you are on oxygen your travel days over? Before you answer that question, we would like to Troy Lofton, from Laurel, Mississippi, uses oxygen at 10–12 liters per minute (yes, that…
Homecare Rules The American Association for Home- care believes that it is crucial to directly reach out to consumers and rally them be- hind AAHomecare’s advocacy efforts. The AAHomecare consumer campaign, Save My Medical Supplies (http://tinyurl.com/ lqv89oj) is designed to build public aware- ness, and eventually a public outcry, from the millions of…
Swallow Your Pride and Take the Ride! Many people do not wish to be seen with their oxygen on or riding in a wheelchair. There are times when it is much better to overcome these feelings of pride and give in. There are advantages to using a wheelchair – like getting in the…
Two Women Tell Their Stories Starting Oxygen Therapy JoAnn Smith of Grandy, North Carolina, found out two years ago that she had COPD when she was in cardiac rehabilitation after a heart attack. The nurses kept saying her oxygen levels were low. After being referred to a pulmonary specialist, she was placed on oxygen…
It is Important to Keep Your Weight Up with COPD The COPD Foundation tells us that un- planned weight loss affects as many as 40 percent to 70 percent of those with COPD. You will need between 430 to 720 calories a day just to do the work of breathing. When the number…
Asthma News People with hard to control asthma have found relief in a treatment called bronchial thermoplasty and recent research reveals its effects last at least five years. Once per- formed, they had fewer emergency visits, used less medication and missed fewer days at work. During bronchial thermoplasty, a phy- sician uses a…
Smoking News I recently noticed a man using a portable oxygen concentrator while we were walking through a town. As we got closer, I saw that he was smoking with the cannula in his nose! If you need help quitting, the latest re- search finds that using the nicotine patch plus the medication,…
Sharing the Health! Gloria Wright of Fort Myers, FL, was a little confused when she read these instruc- tions on a Ventolin inhaler! Thinking of retiring to a place that would be good for your health? America’s Health Rankings Senior Report by the United Health Foundation ranked the 50 states by looking at…