Living ~400lbs

Category: Asthma

  • Food as Medicine, or, Blueberries Prevent Death

    I’m not the only one who makes fun of the “food is medicine” “eat this and you’ll live forever or at least you won’t get cancer (maybe).” Am I? I’m not the only one who rolls my eyes at “superfoods” or who likes smoothies because they’re a quick breakfast, not because they’re “brain boosters“, right? Right?…

  • Meds: There’s a Reason I Take Them

    It’s amazing how my morning can go from “bleah” and “moving sucks” to “this feels right pleasant” and “let’s get stuff done” just by taking my meds. The asthma meds in particular make carrying laundry up/down the stairs and changing sheets much easier, but the vitamin B12 and D also does a lot for my…

  • Advair Users Beware

    FDA Alert: Some Advair Discus inhalers stolen from a distribution warehouse in 2009 have shown up in pharmacies. Lot numbers available at the link —- don’t use these particular lots. They may have been tampered with, have lost potency, been handled improperly. Note this is not a problem with Advair in general, just that certain…

  • Thankful Thursday

    [a not-always-weekly exercise in gratitude] 1) Trees are blooming everywhere and my allergy meds are dealing with it. 2) The Sounders won their home season opener! 3) Continuing to exercise is having the desired affects — I survived a Costco jaunt last weekend and walked to a restaurant that serves wine today during lunch. 4) …and…

  • What’s Up With You?

    Hi y’all. Feel like it’s been a while since I had a real post. So. Still here. Still fat. What’s changed: Started walking again. The hip pain I referenced about 10 days ago?  Still here.  Still decreasing, thank heavens, but still here.  I took nearly two weeks off from walking every day.  I have begun…

  • Thankful Thursday

    [a not-always-weekly exercise in gratitude] 1) Able to slowly and gently dance around the living room this week :) 2) Life expectancy keeps going up. 3) Enjoyable walk today despite the sometimes-rain sometimes-drizzle.  (I picked a shopping area, so I could spend a lot of time inside or under eaves.) 4) How cleaning my bedroom…

  • Thankful Thursday

    [Another weekly exercise in gratitude.] 1) The man of the house made dinner — patty melt for me, with minced onion & mushrooms mixed into the patty, and a chili burger for him.   Yum. 2) Successfully moving my sleep schedule earlier, so I get to work in good time and get enough sleep. 3) The cable…

  • Thankful Thursday

    [Another weekly exercise in gratitude.] 1) I am thankful and honored to read the comments people have made in response to yesterday’s post. 2) Hugs from the man of the house yesterday. 3) Elevator repairs at work this week mean I’m walking more stairs.  I’m managing this MUCH better than I was afraid I would ;) 4) Experimenting…

  • Day in the Life: Returning to Fitness World

    (I think that’s my new name for the gym, and not just when I’m doing a body fat test.  ;) Yes, I’ve been putting it off.  Partly because I’m easily the largest woman I’ve seen there, partly because dealing with the tech during the body fat test did rattle me a bit, and partly because I…

  • Thankful Thursday

    1) Being able to work remotely. 2) Noise-dampening headphones to keep me from killing the lawnmowers. 3) Summer solstice has passed.  The days aren’t actually shorter yet, but knowing they won’t get any longer helps. 4) My knee doesn’t bother me walking down and up hills as I go around the block.  (For those who…

  • Notes on Sunday’s Web-Surfing

    A few notes on things I ran across on the web. Note 0: Fat asthmatics may need weight-based dosing.   Suddenly I don’t feel guilty that I sometimes need 3 inhaler puffs instead of 2.   Note 1:  “The Drink-8-Glasses-of-Water-a-Day is a myth” story has hit Fark.  Maybe doctors will get it soon?  Note 2: Some…

  • Thankful Thursday

    [Another weekly exercise in gratitude.] 1) Started doing full squats again* – not very many, and not using any extra weights, but even so, I am pleased with this progress.  ;) 2) Finished a big rollout at work, which has seriously reduced my stress.  3) Three-day weekend coming up. 4) The insurance company finally approved…

  • Thankful Thursday

    This is one of those weeks where I’d rather be venting about the stressy stuff and not looking for things to be grateful for.  But … that’s also part of why I do it, to focus on the good instead of the bad.  1) New CPAP mask arrived from cpap.com.   2) A friend asked…

  • Fun with Breathing

        Manufacturer’s pic of my CPAP mask Sunday night (and Monday morning) I kept waking up due to my CPAP mask blowing a stream of cold air on my lip.   I thought it was perhaps an inadequate seal between the rubbery “nasal pillows” and my nostrils, but futzed around and eventually got back to…

  • Thankful Thursday

    Today I am thankful for… 1) Antihistimines and my inhaler.  They help me enjoy spring and not feel like I’m sick all the time. 2) Sunshine.  It is a nice change after the dark-by-4:30pm winter.  3) It appears that most of the garden survived the winter.  4) Going for a walk on a stressful day…yes,…

  • Pollen Sucks

    Seriously.   Nose running, eyes itching, I take extra antihistimines – and then nibble on chocolate-covered coffee beans* to compensate for the resulting drowsiness.**  I’m coughing up the occasional bit of phlegm, too, and my lungs feel fullish. The one good thing is that even though I feel sick, I’m probably not actually contagious.   How’s…

  • Small update

    I had been slacking on working out this week.  (Something about starting this blog that eats up my free time… !)   But after writing the post about the aerobics tape last night, I went ahead and did it this morning. It felt good :) The suprise is that I’ve been feeling kind of congested /…