by Carla Barnes | Nov 16, 2023 | Patients Blog, Related - Clinicians, Related - Patients
Contributed by Natalie Haglund, consultant to CAIRE Inc.~ Living with a lung disease sometimes means using supplemental oxygen. That might be in the form of portable oxygen tanks or a portable oxygen concentrator (POC). As a person that was busy and active pre...
by Carla Barnes | Oct 12, 2023 | Patients Blog, Related - Patients
Contributed by Natalie Haglund, consultant to CAIRE Inc.~ Since I last wrote, we recognized Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month in September, and the very first World Oxygen Day on October 2nd. Education, events, and personal stories about patients and caregivers were...
by Carla Barnes | Oct 11, 2023 | Patients Blog, Related - Patients
Contributed by Bob Rawlins, consultant to CAIRE Inc.~ Hey all, I’m glad to be back. It has been a crazy few months. Educating myself with the perils of sending triplets to college all at once, my goodness. All of this has reminded me that educating ourselves with the...
by Carla Barnes | Aug 31, 2023 | Patients Blog, Related - Patients
Contributed by Natalie Haglund, consultant to CAIRE Inc.~ I’ve been thinking about support systems lately. Thankfully, I have many. They were in place prior to my interstitial lung disease (ILD) diagnosis, and they have continued to show up in full force after...
by Carla Barnes | Jul 19, 2023 | Patients Blog, Related - Patients
Contributed by Natalie Haglund, consultant to CAIRE Inc.~ In July 2016 I started pulmonary rehab. Interstitial lung disease had slowed me down a lot, and one of the medications I had been put on (to try to manage and slow down the progression of my lung disease),...
by Carla Barnes | Jun 21, 2023 | Patients Blog, Related - Patients
Contributed by Natalie Haglund, consultant to CAIRE Inc.~ So, now what? Almost two years in, living with an interstitial lung disease, I was asking myself this question. I was working full time and doing everything I could to stabilize and manage an unpredictable...
