by Carla Barnes | Dec 17, 2019 | Patients Blog
Contributed by Bob “Oxygen Man” Rawlins, oxygen user and consultant to CAIRE Inc. ~ Canada was always our destination from Christmas through New Year’s. My mom raised me as a single parent from the ripe old age of 3 until she eventually kicked me out of the house...
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 | Oct 2, 2019 | Patients Blog
Contributed by Bob Rawlins, oxygen user and consultant to CAIRE Inc. ~ We are taught very early in life that there are five basic senses: touch, sight, hearing, smell and taste. People have written about them. Artists have painted about them. Rembrandt, around...
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,...