by Carla Barnes | Dec 31, 2019 | Patients Blog
Contributed by Jim Nelson, consultant to CAIRE Inc. ~ So, to my surprise, I am looking forward to the dawning of 2020! Who knew? I never thought that I would see the turn of the century, let alone 20 years later … When we reach a certain age, we tend to look upon the...
by Carla Barnes | Dec 17, 2019 | Patients Blog
Contributed by Jim Nelson, consultant to CAIRE Inc. ~ There are a double handful of things that a COPD patient must do in order to stay as healthy and strong as possible. Ignoring any of them can leave us vulnerable to the dreaded exacerbation. Pneumonia, infections,...
by Carla Barnes | Oct 18, 2019 | Patients Blog
Contributed by Jim Nelson, consultant to CAIRE Inc. ~ CHOOSE TO LEARN ABOUT YOUR DISEASE! Everyone is faced with choices … sadly, many of our choices result from fear. When the sun comes up and we see that the noise outside the cave was actually a bunny, rather than a...
by Carla Barnes | Sep 19, 2019 | Patients Blog
Contributed by Jim Nelson, consultant to CAIRE Inc. ~ There are simply too many aspects to dealing with wimpy lungs to put in one blog post. Consequently, here are a few more ideas to make your life a bit better. KEEP THE HOUSE CLEAN Do the cleaning when you are...
by Carla Barnes | Sep 10, 2019 | Patients Blog
Contributed by Bob Rawlins, oxygen user and consultant to CAIRE Inc. ~ Yogi Berra, famous baseball catcher with 10 world series rings and well known for his “Yogi-isms” would say, “If you come to a fork in the road, take it.” Obviously, that is close to impossible,...
