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Hundred People Search Update

We have added three more HPSers to the patient registry. I've been very sick, so I've been offline more than a week. One was one from week before last I never got to add, and two are from this past week. This puts us at 76 to go on the Hundred People Search. 

Health Update

This is going to be a very busy couple of weeks. On Wednesday I graduate from pulmonary rehabilitation. The time went by so fast!!!! I have really enjoyed the program. Perhaps for the first time ever, I actually enjoyed exercise! I didn’t feel like I stuck out like a sore thumb amid the gym bunnies. I had help using the equipment without feeling like everyone was watching me (in a staring kind of way.) I felt totally safe pushing myself and I had access to all the oxygen I needed. My biggest fear was that as I improved and could push myself harder, I needed more oxygen on the treadmill. The other equipment I was fine at three liters, but I need between six and eight liters to go full tilt on the treadmill. My wonderful little concentrator that has given me more freedom since ditching the refill tanks only goes to four liters. I was really afraid they’d tell me I had to ditch my little concentrator for the tanks again. Truth is, that day is coming no matter what. Yet, here I am with acc