Geeta

[Guest guest]

Hi Geeta.

Wow! You're my first-ever friend from India. Greetings

from Fort Worth, Texas to Bombay. Your name is lovely.

I'm so sorry you have IPF but very glad you've found us.

You won't ever have to be alone with this group's care

and support.

If it was your passion, I'm sure you were a wonderful

teacher. I think you were brave to teach that age group!

I'm also math-challenged! We have a number of ex-teachers

on this board. We really have trouble attracting competent

teachers in the US, because they aren't paid enough. There's

also a lot of parental neglect in the area of education, a

tragedy for which we are all paying the consequences.

I'm encouraged that you've had IPF for so many years -

that gives me hope for the rest of us, since all the

literature is so discouraging. You were diagnosed for quite

a while before needing oxygen. Would you perhaps be able

to get out of the house more if you increased your

oxygen? Maybe you're like me, where my sats drop no

matter how high I set my liter flow. However, I'm just

stubborn and determined enough to get out sometimes

with portable 02. Perhaps you have other health issues

as well. I'm glad you have an active mind to keep you busy

at home, and a loving family. Do both your children still

live at home? Mine are both a 3-hour drive away (also a

son and a daughter).

Thank you for posting. I'll look forward to hearing from

you again.

Hugs,

Gwynne IPF 7/04 listed for transplant 3/07 Texas

[Guest guest]

-Thank you Leanne for you warm welcome into the group ,you are

doing a great job. I f I come across as having a positive attitude

I must thank you for your observation, but since I have been given

this disease and God seems to have given me the fortitude to bear it

it is natural for me look at the brighter side of things.i have

great caring family to help me on this path

I definitely want everone to try yoga it has benifits for one and

all , I want everyone to try out atleast one asna( exercise) and do

it everyday from this NEW YEAR!!

LOVE

GEETA

-- In Breathe-Support , Leanne Storch

wrote:

>

> Geeta,

>

> Welcome to our little air family. Sounds like you've had a

rough go of things, but it also sounds as though you have a very

positive attitude which is so very important.

>

> I just started doing Yoga a couple of months ago and I LOVE it.

It's definitely something pulmonary fibrosis patients can do as it

is not very strenuous. Looking forward to your information.

>

> Leanne uip 1/03 Illinois

> listed for single lung transplant 10-12-07

>

> Geeta Vasudev wrote:

> Hi All!!

> I have registered on this site long back but have

> not had the courage to post anything so far .I have

> been dignosed with IPF since 1995 and have been on o2

> 24/7 since 2005.

> I find so much in common with all or some of u as i

> read all ur mails, i decided to take the jump today, I

> have however corresponded with Bruce Moreland .

> I am Geeta from bombay, India, I am 58yrs old we

> are a family of my husband and two children, a son and

> a daughter.

> I was aschool teaher , teaching math, science and

> at times English to 9th and 10th graders, teaching has

> been a great passion for me but all that was cut short

> after my disease struck, now iamhouse bound rarely

> venture out, however reading remains mainstay i read

> for several hrs aday, surf the net and watch TV , i

> also cook and do light house work.

> I was diagnosed with ILD and later from X--rays,

> bronchioscopy and LFT tests, my pulmo put down the

> diagnosis to IPF and started me on with 60 mg predn

> isone and methotextrate they have been titrating

> prednisone all thes yrs with some sucess and i have

> survived now for 12 yrs or more though i do have a

> host of problems as side effects of steroids and have

> thru very tough times.

> I now have hypertension ( under control with

> drugs),i have developed cataract in both eyes , got

> surgery done on one of them, i have a moon face and a

> lot of fluid retension,and wt increase,i have severe

> osteo porosis,suffer from mood swings

> i had to get a major surgery done for a stomach

> volvlus, severe coughing had caused hernia my stomach

> had entered the chest cavity tearing the diaphragm

> and also convulute d creating a block i cudnt eat or

> drink for mths till an endoscopy confirmed this i had

> come down to 38kg and surgery was considered risky due

> tomy lung condn it was a tuf call for the doctors and

> for us

>

> i came thru well

> i wish to share my experinces and introduce u all to

> yoga and its benefits for us

>

> i will do so in my next post

>

> its feels great to b with u all

>

> Geeta

>

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