This is me! After 3 years on oxygen, 9 nebulizer treatments a day, IV antibiotics for weeks at a time, dozens of pills, airway clearance, pulmonary rehab, and now only 20% lung function, I finally have good news: ⬇️ #cysticfibrosis#CLT#NC
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Senator Blackburn holds a B.S. in home economics from Mississippi State University, not a nursing degree. Her pre-political career focused on sales and marketing, including roles at Times Mirror and Mercantile Stores, before founding her own promotion-event management firm, Marketing Strategies. She has no background as a registered nurse.
I’m really struggling to breathe today. No appetite.
My #lungtransplant coordinator talked to me about end of life stuff. It sounds like my suffering will increase until they finally sedate me to get through the final days. How close am I to that? They can’t predict.
Just had the saddest conversation with my lung transplant doctor. He doesn’t think there’s any way to get back my lung function.
I’m now down to 18%.
(I was 85% in April!)
He thinks it’s CLAD: Chronic rejection. He’s going to try a few things to stabilize what I have left.
My 8th photopheresis treatment to try to delay death. My body is rejecting my transplanted lungs.
My lung function fell to 16%.
In April it was still 85%.
By June it dropped to 39%.
3 hospitalizations later,
it dropped to 18%.
Doctors say there’s little chance it will improve.
@LeahLibresco@JillFilipovic They didn’t know she was lying. That’s the whole point. They refused to save a starving baby. But the mosque helped! The little church in Kentucky helped. BTW, the little church Heritage Hope Church of God received over $75,000 in donations since the video https://t.co/KsvAWicxLa
@MaupinMari76912@JillFilipovic So you let the baby die.
There’s a baby on your front lawn crying. It will soon die if it’s not fed. Do you just ignore it?
@PokerPolitics@bannersquest@CrisAZelaya They thought it was real. Watch the videos. There’s a baby crying in the background. And the few who offered to help she told them immediately that it was an experiment.
Better to save someone testing you than let a baby die of hunger! What would Jesus do?
@CrisAZelaya When people talk about SNAP benefits the conservatives all claim their tax dollars aren’t supposed to cover this and churches will
But now when someone asks churches to cover it, suddenly the goalposts shift and you have to be a church member with a history of tithing 🙄
@his_eminence_j Imagine how many times you have to replace major appliances and HVAC over 50 YEARS! Builder grade appliances in new homes last around 10 if you’re lucky. They’re not made like your grandmother’s oven!