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July 13, 2009 OK patient's hop on the band wagon-help us help ourselves! by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema Whoopee! Am I gratified at the numbers visiting this blog. The last 3 days average was 552 per day. WOW! You can't imagine how wonderful this makes me feel I thank ... Read on »

July 12, 2009 COPD'ers HELP locate TTO pulmo drs/ENT/surgeons by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema My friend, Mike McBride (the COPD'er who completed recent Boston Marathon) did a far superior request write up about our search for TTO doctors. In the photo at an eve ... Read on »

July 11, 2009 COPD beware of pollution in the air-ozone-particulates by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema Yesterday the air was much better in the Denver area of Colorado, I even managed to do a long slow walk, in the sun, shadows, around a pool and into a delightfully air conditi ... Read on »

July 10, 2009 COPDer's keep moving, aging is no excuse. by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema Good Afternoon, wow, don't we all wish we could keep moving like this gal in photo, only 83 years old. So, maybe that is too much for most of us, BUT, we can THINK you ... Read on »

July 09, 2009 COPD breathing,bugs,Climate, TTO. by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema Hi all, hope you are weathering the heat, wind, dust, air pollution and so on. It is extra hot today, not as hot as a few days ago, but there is an Ozone warning. I'm ... Read on »

July 08, 2009 After days of Play...time to go back to routine work by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema OHHHH me, catching up with computer accounts, bills, recording budgets and so on seems to take forever after just a few days of play away from routine. I wonder sometimes if ... Read on »

July 07, 2009 Altitudes effect upon Oxygen use with COPD by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema Hi all, I am home again after another ride up to Georgetown Colorado, around 8,500 ft. where our house guest was visiting for the summer at her brothers. A wonderful mining to ... Read on »

July 06, 2009 Busy busy day...the kind anyone wants by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema Hi ,Sorry I missed posting today, had to drive into the mountains, pick up a dear relative and bring her down for a visit on the plains do some yarn shopping and then a fabulo ... Read on »

July 05, 2009 Take a big step forward with COPD by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema Hi, This is a great day to do a little more moving...take a big step, but as pictured above...that is too big. Make your exercise increases manageable. Even little moves count ... Read on »

July 04, 2009 Happy Holiday weekend, for the USA today by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema For those from theUSA��Happy 4th of July. May it be a wonderful day for everyone every where in every country on earth, PEACE & Love each other. ... Read on »

July 03, 2009 TGIF Don't sweat the small stuff! by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema Thank God it's Friday! Hope all is well with you and if things are overwhelming try not to sweat the small stuff, keep moving a little more each day...like I ought to ... Read on »

July 02, 2009 Knowledge is strength =read Everything Respiratory magazine by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema Good Morning! Another beautiful day��sunny now, but the afternoon storms are predicted to roll in. Photo above I finished my 9th Half marathon [3 per yea ... Read on »

July 01, 2009 COPDer's need to sneak in exercise sometimes by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema Jumping Jimminy, July is upon us already. Along with HOT-HOT-HOT weather, and a crazy unusual amount of rain for us in Colorado. Usually we can say humidity? what's ... Read on »

June 30, 2009 COPD Steep downhill hurts the legs even walking by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema Hi Folks, a busy day on the computer, and actually walking upright. I have stopped hobbling and my knees and hips just feel sore.Photo, down a steep bike path from Silver Plu ... Read on »

June 29, 2009 the first five gorgeous miles, rugged rocky mountains by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema The first five miles all extremely rough and rocky trail, some wash out spots, but beautiful and shaded from the sun, with rushing bubbling brooks of snow melt running down al ... Read on »

June 29, 2009 The ultimate COPD challenge, going UP HILL by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema The Start was a nice downhill slope for a few hundred yards, then it changed to a STEEP uphill climb from 10,330 up to 10,880 ft. Look at the rocks, all sizes, some loose grav ... Read on »

June 29, 2009 Be patient, wait your turn on the side lines... by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema Waiting my turn, watching hundreds of runners and walkers go by to cross the starting timing pads. I will be last to start, but not last to finish. For those unfamiliar with ... Read on »

June 29, 2009 A chance to educate others about TTO & COPD by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema A doctor and her husband asked me about my TTO-transtracheal oxygen delivery into my neck. His brother, a former athlete is going to hear a LOT about what he CAN do with some ... Read on »

June 29, 2009 Be Active Be Healthy Be rewarded by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema Working yourself to better fitness depends upon keeping yourself healthy with good food, medicines that work for you taken regularly... everything 'regular' fo ... Read on »

June 29, 2009 IMPORTANT BUSINESS BEFORE EXERCISE by Roxlyn Posted in: Blog Posts in COPD & Emphysema Important business to attend to before this exercise/event. The porta potties are not busy an hour before the Start of the Slacker, (which began farther up hill). Later, lin ... Read on »

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