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1:07pm April 16, 2013
feliscorvus: youneedacat: This is my weird oxygen machine, since I had to get up to burp my g tube three frigging times in a row anyway. And Fey is in front of it yowling because I’m moving around. (After I started taking precautions that prevented a lot of other aspiration, around 4-6 in the morning is always when I aspirated. Now I’m learning why. Apparently my body produces an ungodly amount of gas and bile and stomach acid at this time for some reason and its hurting like hell tonight without all those IV pain meds from the hospital and the nurse coming through to burp it all the time. That’s why I’m up right now instead of sleeping like I want to be.) Ooooooh cool, it looks to be an oxygen concentrator! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_concentrator The weird breathing thing I’m guessing has to do with the part about somehow “detecting” when the person is inhaling. There are some models that can apparently provide a more continuous flow. Kind of cool that there’s a way to concentrate oxygen from the atmosphere. But if you need an actual tank for whatever reason at some point I hope you can get one. There was a guy at my old work who had some sort of lung condition, who brought a small tank with him every day and pulled it around on a little cart. Was never a big deal or anything, though I know there are safety things that need to be accounted for with tanks. I have two tanks. They can be filled up by the concentrator. I also have one giant tank in the other room for emergencies. But the ones I’m using,like the one I’m using now, are little ones. Those are the ones that have the air puffing like that. They have a continuous option but that would use up to much oxygen. The actual concentrator has a continuous flow.

feliscorvus:

youneedacat:

This is my weird oxygen machine, since I had to get up to burp my g tube three frigging times in a row anyway. And Fey is in front of it yowling because I’m moving around.

(After I started taking precautions that prevented a lot of other aspiration, around 4-6 in the morning is always when I aspirated. Now I’m learning why. Apparently my body produces an ungodly amount of gas and bile and stomach acid at this time for some reason and its hurting like hell tonight without all those IV pain meds from the hospital and the nurse coming through to burp it all the time. That’s why I’m up right now instead of sleeping like I want to be.)

Ooooooh cool, it looks to be an oxygen concentrator! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_concentrator The weird breathing thing I’m guessing has to do with the part about somehow “detecting” when the person is inhaling. There are some models that can apparently provide a more continuous flow. Kind of cool that there’s a way to concentrate oxygen from the atmosphere. But if you need an actual tank for whatever reason at some point I hope you can get one. There was a guy at my old work who had some sort of lung condition, who brought a small tank with him every day and pulled it around on a little cart. Was never a big deal or anything, though I know there are safety things that need to be accounted for with tanks.

I have two tanks. They can be filled up by the concentrator. I also have one giant tank in the other room for emergencies. But the ones I’m using,like the one I’m using now, are little ones. Those are the ones that have the air puffing like that. They have a continuous option but that would use up to much oxygen. The actual concentrator has a continuous flow.