Good evening krewe! Hope everyone is having a good day?
OK, so I have a request, but want to lay out the background.
A couple of months ago (think baby bird incident) Atcha bought some sort of heat blocking polymer paint to paint the roof of her porch with, to try to keep it cooler for the birds. Shortly afterwards she started having some breathing difficulty. She assumed it was from the fumes, thought she would get better with time, and for awhile she did get a little better.
By the way, not her first rodeo so to speak, she had similar issues a couple years ago, that served as her catalyst to finally completely quit smoking, after a couple years as a dual user. That time it appeared to be triggered by painting in an enclosed space. Seeing a pattern? But even a couple years before that she'd had some breathing issues that led her to start vaping in the first place...anyway I suspect this is a chronic condition she's had for years and just didn't know it.
So anyway, because she did seem to be getting better even though it was slow, she didn't go to the doctor as soon as she should have. But it started getting worse again so she finally went to the doctor. Doc said bronchitis, gave her an inhaler, and that seemed to help a bit. But after a couple weeks she still wasn't doing great, went back last week, and got on some steroids and a different inhaler.Also a nebulizer.
Steroids seemed to do her a lot of good, but since the new inhaler also has steroids it was only a 5 day treatment. So yesterday she's back to having issues again. By the way at this point we are talking she can barely talk without starting to run out of breath by the time the day is done. She'll be somewhat OK in the morning, if she eats at all then she'll start feeling short of breath almost right away. By the end of the day she is about at the end of her rope.
She is having a lung function test on Tuesday, and I think she is trying to avoid going back to the doctor until then even though I have told her the last two nights she should call her doc. So she got one of those pulse oxygen meters and tried it this afternoon, couldn't get an O2 reading because her heart rate was crazy.
She is now afraid that it may be her heart and not her lungs (which without going into details, I've know for awhile that congestive heart failure is a potential future concern for her as well due to other medical issues) though right now my money is still on chronic bronchitis.
Long story short she's scared because she's thinking of all the serious issues she might have and because she isn't getting better. So she asked me to ask for some prayers here. I figured if I was doing that I should at least kind of lay out the situation.
So if I could get some prayers, thoughts, vibes, healing energy, etc for Linda, I'd appreciate it.
