Ishia/ Re: Hello to All! I am new to the group!

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Hi Ishia!

What a pretty name!! Nice to meet you! How is the weather down in Baja? I think

you are totally right when you say how we are in our frame of minds matters

alot!!

I'm so happy to be in this group!

Smiles,

Sandy Abernathy

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> > Hello Everyone!

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> > I am new to this group! My name is Sandy Abernathy. I am going to be 57

> > years old the 25th of this month. I have 3 adult " kids " all in their

> > middle 30's. And I have 2 Grandchildren and 3 cats. I live in the Sierra

> > Mountain Foothills, just above Sacramento, California in a town in the

> > gold country, called " Auburn, California. "

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> > And I have bad asthma, and Obstructive Lung Disease/Restrictive Lung

> > Disease due to air trapping in my lungs and scaring, etc. And I also

> > have Obstructive Sleep Apnea. I know one of your moderators here,

> > . She is a Type 2 Diabetic like I am as well. And she told me

> > about this group.

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> > I am so excited to be able to find a group of people who are like a

> > support group, who have asthma and other lung issues like I do. My

> > Diabetes is in excellent control right now. And so is my cholesterol.

> > But my lungs at this time, they rule my world. I am too disabled to work

> > anymore and have been forced into an early retirement.

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> > During the night, my oxygen levels went down to 64% and during two sleep

> > tests, I stopped breathing 98 times in one hour alone. I cannot sit or

> > stand very long. I cannot stand very long because I get so short of

> > breath and I am swelling up alot. I have gained 40 pounds of water

> > weight over the past 8 months, despite being on 160 mg's of lasix (water

> > pills) every day. If I sit too long, my feet, ankles, legs, and hands

> > swell up. So then I have to go and put my feet up alot during the day.

> > I've worked over 41 years in my life, so not being able to work took

> > some getting use to.

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> > Inside I feel young, alive, full of life and happy. It's just the

> > outside of me, my flesh, that has alot of issues. I have two inhalers:

> > Symbiacort and Proventil, and I am also on concentrated Oxygen a few

> > times a day. It isn't on oxygen 24 hours yet, thank goodness.

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> > With my lung issues, I find I am going to have to buy a wheel chair and

> > shower chair next month. I get dizzy and nauseated every day too, and go

> > numb off and on. Do any of you get like that?

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> > Nice to meet all of you!

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> > Sandy Abernathy :-)

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