9:41pm March 20, 2013

So basically

I slept a lot of yesterday and last night then slept a lot of today and I’m still tired. I’m not exactly coughing up a lot and I can’t tell if that’s bad or good. When I do cough up anything of substance it’s green still. So it’s good I’m on antibiotics.

I guess I’m glad I know that drinking a ton of Gatorade just before bed is an aspiration risk. Just like drinking more food-grade liquids like Ensure is, for much longer before bed. But getting a lung infection is not how I wanted to find out. I’m getting too damn many this year. My oxygen ranges from 90-97 while awake, down to 85 while drowsy and I don’t want to imagine what while asleep. And I feel really tired and nasty all the time. Not as tired and nasty as when I got pneumonia last year but I’m keeping an eye on it.

Maybe, maybe, maybe I will have enough awareness of what it feels like when I shouldn’t put on my bipap now, to avoid this from now on. I hope. I’m tired and even my arm is tired typing. And I know that even though so far I always recover that doesn’t mean this isn’t dangerous as hell. Have to work out some solution. And I’m becoming more and more sure it’s gastroparesis belching up stomach liquids then bipap shoving the liquids into my lungs because the pattern keeps repeating.

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