Adventures in H1N1 land: valleys and highs
Having been through the H1N1 valley, first reaction is: eh!
Climbing the ridge to the other side has proven more difficult — Mr.Wheez (who was the only good company I had on the trip) has turned into an potentially evil road companion. Possible pneumonia fears (nothing positive yet on xrays) leads to prednizone protocol and escalation of Albuterol… Read More treatment using a “nebulizer” (puffing ain’t good enough, obviously; now have to use a nasty little air compressor gadget that has all the power (but none of the charm) of a bong — and some of the same outcomes; what are those old Beatle tunes that keep running through my head….)
But, that regimen of prednizone is having the predicted impact on my diabates which I had under reasonable control. Has raised my already abnormally high BG count to average of 200 so far after only one day….Result is I have do those damn BG readings every 90 minutes or so (oh, my poor finger tips filled with little holes!). That is in addition … Read Moreto the pills X, Y, Z every two to fours, the albuturol treatment every six hours, plus my usual regimen of pills for this in the AM and that in the PM. I was kidding in earlier post somewhere that I needed a project management software to get through this — well, no longer kidding. The to-do list cannot manage this thing.
I am beginning to wonder if the deaths among older adults linked to H1N1 are result of exhaustion….
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