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1:56pm July 4, 2014
interacting-with-you asked: Are you sick? In your picture if that's you it looks like you have the breathing thing on that hospitals use. Anyway if you are I hope you are okay and get well (:

Not sure which picture.  I use a bipap sometimes and oxygen other times, and both of those are completely normal for me.  I have bronchiectasis, which has gotten worse with multiple aspirations (which always lead to pneumonia) over the past several years, so I sometimes need supplemental oxygen.  So sometimes you’re going to see me with a nasal cannula, which is one of those little tubes that goes into your nose just barely, and sends oxygen into your body.  And I have both central and obstructive sleep apnea (central is where your brain forgets to tell your body to breathe, obstructive is when your airway gets obstructed regularly in your sleep due to structural problems), so you’ll see me with a bipap at times, which has a big mask that goes over my nose and mouth.  I also sometimes need the bipap while awake when I get too weak to breathe on my own comfortably, but fortunately since starting steroids that has become very rare.

So I guess I am sick and I’m not sick.  Because I have chronic illnesses, but I don’t have a cold or something like that.

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