I must have posted this video several dozen times already, usually associated with his propensity for gaffes:
bronchial asthma
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Obama banning medical devices he can"t pronounce (asthma inhalers banned over "environmental concerns")
Asthma Awareness
Smoking and Asthma
Smoking is bad news for everyone, but especially for kids who have asthma. And yet between 15 and 20 percent of people with asthma still indulge in the habit, even though it makes them wheezier. Pregnant women who smoke increase the risk of the baby being asthmatic and having other respiratory illness. Tobacco smoke contains 4,000 chemicals, present either as gases or tiny particles. Keep your home smoke free. Remove all ashtrays and should a guest ask for one, explain that it is necessary to keep your home unpolluted, and suggest they smoke outside. Offer them a nicotine patch if they do not want to go out. It is important to have fresh air circulating throughout your home but beware of room fresheners as they also can be triggers. Open a window back and front of your home for a little while twice a day. Children are much more sensitive to cigarette pollution than adults. Seek out practical information on how to protect them against asthma using new and innovative methods. Look up a website with an alternative solution about how to cure asthma the natural way.
You do not have to smoke yourself to inhale the fumes. Every time you walk into a bar you will get a blast of tobacco and if your asthma is severe you should avoid such places. Other people’s smoking habits can make your life a misery and if you live or work with a smoker there is little or no escape from smoke related risks.Children of smokers are more likely to have wheezy episodes and time off school than those with non smoking parents. It is generally worse when the mother smokes because many children spend more time with their mother than their father.
violations of civil rights page 16 Appeal to Federal Blue Cross/Blue Shield of ILLINOIS,TX,OK, NM
Attached are a recap summary of all claims back to 8/1/00 which are currently appealed or are new items received not paid correctly. All claims need to be referred first to federal workers compensation and your contact should be the regional office manager in Dallas, TX, not the non- compliantcontractor as to how this can be facilitated. New actions since your last, inaccurate decisions based on false and incomplete information. Remember you are alleging OPM’ past director gave you one set of ‘ facts’ and ACS, the paper controller and claims processor for US dept of labor, claims they were told an opposite set of ‘facts’ by that same director. Trailblazers has been non cooperative with judges, etc. but Cigna Govt services did cooperate and the only Final decision was issued by Medicare’s appellate judge on 9/29/2010 was based on the internal documents that were withheld from you, even from the officials at OPM? , by that director. Federal workers comp gets claims first. Then you and last would be Medicare for any co- pays or deductibles on medical issues not yet reviewed or accepted yet. All conditions accepted or filed on 1/10/89 injury . HIPPAA reqeust for written recap of who said what, when to solve. not yet answered.
Strategies to Control Asthma
This summary from the NHLBI provides invaluable information to parents of children with asthma. Â SS
World Asthma Day and Asthma Awareness Month
Together we can help control asthma.
Use inhaled corticosteroids to control asthma if you have persistent asthma. Your doctor will help you choose the best treatment.
Use a written asthma action plan to highlight two things: 1) what to do daily to control your asthma, and 2) how to handle symptoms or asthma attacks.
Assess asthma severity at the initial visit to determine what treatment to start to get your asthma under control.
Assess and monitor how well controlled your asthma isat follow up visits. Your doctor may need to increase, or decrease your medicine to keep asthma under control.
Schedule follow-up visits at periodic intervals, and at least every six months.
Control environmental exposures such as allergens or irritants that worsen your asthma.
Is it Walking Pneumonia? Bronchitis? Or Asthma?
Sweet Baby Tate has had a cough for weeks now, at least 4. Â It was a dry cough at first, and I was doing much the same thing. Â It always felt like I had a frog in my throat that needed clearing. Â I just thought we were both suffering from allergies. Â The weather here unpredictable at best, with rain and wind blowing all the pollen and mold etc about all the time, 30 degrees one day and seriously 83 degrees the next. Â As last year it never froze or truly got cold none of the spores died. Â So now double the crap is flying about in the air. Â People are miserable.
In any event, I just thought we were suffering from allergies. Â While we were in Dallas in early January I was on a Z-pac that I requested from my friend as I felt like I had a sinus infection (Note to self who is a pediatric dentist, don’t ask S for a specific antibiotic for something of which you know nothing about; let her choose as apparently a Z-pac is not the drug of choice for a sinus infection. Â But I digress. Â Are you reading this S?). Â I just felt a little gunky and had that strange yucky taste in my throat and was congested. Â I suppose it helped as I never got a fever and I felt better a couple of days after we returned. Â I mostly didn’t want to get my girl J sick who was possibly going to need to start chemo soon after the weekend (Sadly she got bad news and has finished one round. I’m so sad for her, but I’m positive she’s going to be cured!)
Then Tate started coughing;  the dry cough.  It was  sort of constant, but never seemed to bother him and it would be one hack and then 10 or 15 minutes later another hack.  Nothing concerning though.  He just seemed to always need to clear his throat.  H also had one fantastic screaming fit and became hoarse about 3 1/2 weeks ago.  But the hoarseness has never gone away.  Again I just thought well maybe it was coincidental to the screaming fit, and his little voice was going to be changing.  Now of course when I hear him I can barely remember what he used to sound like, so I’m wondering if there has actually been a change.
However, for about a week and a half now I’ve been given him an anti-histamine at night, usually Benadryl, approved by our allergist, for the cough. Â It alleviated the cough and his sniffling while Zyrtec does not. Â I’ve been keeping him on his Singulair now almost constantly since September where as last year he got a break November – March. Â (I hate him constantly being on medications). Â But when he goes off he tends to get a bit of a dry cough (ahhhh…asthma warnings right?. Â Sigh)
But then this past Monday his teacher texted me twice saying he had been coughing all day long, so much so that he wasn’t able to nap.  He was doing fine, but poor baby had red eyes and looked so tired.  She asked if she could put a small piece of peppermint in some cold water to have him sip to help soothe his throat.  I gave my blessing of course.  He finally fell asleep after everyone else woke up, and she let him sleep an hour while keeping the other 4 kids sort of quiet, so he could rest (I love her!).  That night Tate told me “Ms. JoAnnie gave me some peppermint water, and it made my throat feel ‘bedder’.  I’m going to give her a little hug tomorrow.”  Not a big hug mind you, a little hug
Monday when I picked him up his cough was very wet and productive sounding and he coughed constantly. Â I loaded him up with Benadryl and Singulair and he happily played as usual and went to bed just fine. Â Yesterday, Tuesday, I called and made an appointment with his pediatrician for today.
My parents, who are AWESOME!, picked him up from school this morning and took him to his appointment. Â I wrote the following note for them to give to his pediatrician…
Dr. R….
When you’re ‘sick’ (his ped said he could return to daycare!) Mommy lets you have a hot dog AND hot cocoa in your Polar Express cup for dinner! |