Recent content by LReyome28

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    Delta F508 & G542X

    Only somewhere around 3% according to a Facebook post from the CF site
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    First Time Getting a Port - Looking for Info

    I have had mine since March of 2013 and I made the decision to no longer do volleyball for Special Olympics. When it is accessed in the hospital, I try to get my friends to not hug me so tight, and I need a towel to use my Vest (I still have the older full vest model). The reason why I got mine...
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    Delta F508 & G542X

    Anyone have this combination that is supposed to be a rare one?
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    NewER App for Home Spirometry

    Wheres the app?
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    NewER App for Home Spirometry

    I have an iPod Touch, but I can still email results from using this if I get it, and if it works with iPod Touch. A lot of medical apps out there need you to have an iPhone instead.
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    help GAINING WEIGHT

    When I was in for my previous exacerbation related to pneumonia and sepsis, since Baystate allows you to order your meals through a program they use called Room Service Meals, I was having them pile on the food using the doctors order for double portions. When I was transferred to Kindred Park...
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    Pulmozyme in AM or PM?

    After this recent admission, because of the severity of how this one happened (pneumonia and sepsis), I am now doing it twice a day. So far I have had a lot less coughing during the day and not having to cough during the night because of it, but that also may be because of other factors like the...
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    help GAINING WEIGHT

    I am going to be speaking to my CF doctor about Opt2Thrive, I have already been emailing them about insurance coverage, and they have volunteered to help me with that if I can get a prescription from my CF doctor.
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    Obama & Healthcare

    This is "supposedly" the month where the Supreme Court votes on ObamaCare
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    Obama & Healthcare

    We <em>could </em>have sociallized healthcare, but one of the reasons I do not see it happening is too many of the health insurance providers here in the US are so afraid that it would make them lose money, same with the doctors.
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    Pari neb compressor

    Me, I just need a quieter one LOL. I have to crank up my TV just to hear it, and no it does not have headphone jack. Plus I cannot hear when I am being called downstairs while I am doing it, which has led to more then one time of issues.
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    MRSA

    Meth Resistance Staph Aureus, I had it back in the late 90s. It really did not affect any interaction in public except I had to limit myself on how much kissing I did, and when I was in the hospital, I was in precautionary isolation, meaning I could not leave my room, was required to have a...
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    Obama & Healthcare

    <div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>Printer</b></i> Roe Roberts, you could not be more correct. The House of Representatives, along with the drug companies wrote this bill. It may not be perfect but it is a big step in that direction. In Massachusetts, we are...
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    Dating someone with cf

    I had a friend on here named Lexi, from Ohio. She also had CF and for a time I wished I could be dating her. Instead I had to listen to some of her stories about one time having a boyfriend who wanted her to live the Amish lifestyle, which is not compatible with CF, and getting very sick and...
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    Dental problems caused by cf?

    I have had my wisdom teeth removed (they were crooked and I even had a supernumer) and have early stages of paradontal disease, mainly because of inhalation treatments and mucus coming up and me not getting a chance to spit it out whenever it comes up, so it retreats Also what I hate about...
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