by CAIRE Inc. | Mar 20, 2019 | Patients Blog
Contributed by Bob Rawlins, oxygen user and consultant to CAIRE Inc. ~ Part One ~ I was at my daughter’s Leadership Breakfast this past week. Being an 8th grader and waiting for the next big step towards high school can be and is a big thing. Her school has these...
by CAIRE Inc. | Mar 14, 2019 | Patients Blog
Contributed by Jim Nelson, consultant to CAIRE Inc. ~ Simply put, an advocate is someone who speaks for another. In the case of a patient, it is someone who gathers information, researches the disease, and attends appointments. Their function is to protect, to augment...
by CAIRE Inc. | Mar 6, 2019 | Patients Blog
Contributed by Bob Rawlins, oxygen user and consultant to CAIRE Inc. ~ So lately, when I have been volunteering at the hospital, or working out in my pulmonary therapy sessions, and even just walking around the neighborhood, there have been many questions about my...
by CAIRE Inc. | Feb 27, 2019 | Patients Blog
Contributed by Jim Nelson, consultant to CAIRE Inc. ~ I have two ways to go here … I can subtly build up to the reason for my post, or I can just come right out and say it. I think it would be best to get it on the table. I have cancer. Squamous Cell Carcinoma, to be...
by CAIRE Inc. | Feb 19, 2019 | Patients Blog
Contributed by Bob Rawlins, oxygen user and consultant to CAIRE Inc. ~ So, if you have read any of my blogs in the past you would probably recognize that I have tried to put humor in most of them. Henceforth, my hashtag #laugheveryday. After all, if we can’t laugh...
by CAIRE Inc. | Feb 15, 2019 | Patients Blog
Contributed by Jim Nelson, consultant to CAIRE Inc. ~ The opinions expressed here are my own, and do not necessarily reflect the attitude or outlook of anyone else. Anywhere. Ever. I, like many of you, am a reformed smoker. I grew up in the household of a heavy...
