Oxygen Assessment.

[Theland]

Hospital in the morning for an assessment for home and ambulatory oxygen.
Just hope they done wear me out on a treadmill.

[sanmac]

I would imagine that they would be sending you to a respiratory technologist rather than a tread-mill stress test.

[Buenchico]

They're very efficient these days, Theland. They can assess 10 people at once!

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;-)

[marval]

Good luck Theland, hope all goes well.

[THECORBYLOON]

CHRIS, is that not how escalators are powered?

[Theland]

Buenchico- for my sins eh? Loved it.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Yes, best wishes, Theland.

[Mamyalynne]

Hope all goes well.

[retrocop]

I smoked heavily since age of 5. When I tried to give up (twice) I attended smoking clinics. First visit the nurse said,after her Christmas cracker type tests that I had come in the nick of time as I had the onset of COPD.The first major pre op assessment test sent me to the Lung and Respiratory Function dept in the hospital where my Aortic by pass and bi-femoral graft procedure would be done. I was told my respiratory system was A.OK and I had the lungs of someone half my age of 50 years. I have had,since that first respiratory test ,which was heavy duty, three more pre op tests prior to cancer op and quadruple heart by pass plus aortic stents. Every time my respiratory function test passes easily
and I'm told my lungs are in remarkable shape for my age.
They cannot tell me,however, why I am coughing up submarines and trolley buses on rising for a few hours and am incapable of climbing up and down stairs.Haven't slept with my wife since my by-pass and will be selling son's house and using money to purchase,hopefully, a luxury bungalow somewhere . I had chest X-Rays recently in St Georges when I was an emergency admission four weeks ago and nobody came to any conclusion why I am so breathless most of the time.

//Just hope they done wear me out on a treadmill.//

Just hope they can provide you with a better diagnosis and favourable outcome than I have received. :-)

[Theland]

Cheers Retro. Sorry for you mate. Stairs are a nightmare for me, and with Crohns, numerous toilet trips mean up and down those bloody stairs numerous times a day.
Hope one day to buy a used stair lift.

[Theland]

Still on drugs for tail end of shingles, side effects include some confusion, then COPD lack of oxygen to brain, trying to find hospital letters and meds list is a nightmare. No wonder am depressed.
Sometimes post,on here and don't articulate precisely what am thinking, wrong word or missing word.
Same in conversation with wife and kids and they tell me about it. Keep forgetting what I asked them ten minutes ago.
Thank God for blessed sleep, drug induced of course!

[Theland]

I get so confused these days.
Appointment was not for oxygen, but assessment for COPD rehabilitation programme.
Anyway, daughter picked me up and took me to the physio dept in the Ozzy, they looked at my letter, returned it to me and told me to check the date on it, which I did - 19th November.
Had to apologise to daughter.
So messed up these days.

[TonyV]

Theland dont know what part of the country you are in, but sometimes you can get lots of help from your local council as towards funding essential equipment. Try and get your needs requirements assessed.