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Feeling alone?

Feeling alone?

Contributed by Jim Nelson, consultant to CAIRE Inc. ~ It is easy, sitting there with your diagnosis and your oxygen cannula, to feel alone. (Or your cane or your wheelchair or your chemotherapy treatments. Choose your particular demons.) Your friends are out somewhere...
Victory!!!

Victory!!!

Contributed by Jim Nelson, consultant to CAIRE Inc. ~ When a patient and/or a caregiver is faced with a chronic disease such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), it is awfully easy to fall into the trap of seeking a cure! Any cure! This is not a modern...
As long as you are alive, YOU LIVE!!!

As long as you are alive, YOU LIVE!!!

Contributed by Bob Rawlins, oxygen user and consultant to CAIRE Inc. ~  Easier said than done, you ask? And I respond with, Why? How Come? What is better than living, getting up every day, and enjoying what is right in front of you? If you just look at one side of...
How we got here …

How we got here …

Contributed by Jim Nelson, consultant to CAIRE Inc. ~ Seven years ago, if you’ll pardon the expression, my lungs were on their last legs. I was still doing an hour a day on the treadmill, but it was at 9 to 10 liters of oxygen. I was on the transplant list with...
Are you LIVIN’ THE DREAM?

Are you LIVIN’ THE DREAM?

Contributed by Bob Rawlins, oxygen user and consultant to CAIRE Inc. ~  So how many times and variations have you heard with this phrase? It is interesting to me anyway. I find it said very often with different meanings. I have caught myself using it a bit differently...