Category Archives: CPT

Out of the hospital | boring is good

Life is pretty boring right now, but I guess boring is good. We are taking it pretty easy, except Nathan who has full energy (thanks, albuterol). I’ve been extra busy making sure that all Nathan’s iv antibiotics get started at the right time and that he gets some good chest pt sessions throughout the day….

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Back to the Basics

Nathan had a “sick”, non routine, visit to his CF clinic yesterday. He had his routine checkup only 3 weeks ago and just prior to that visit he was on a course of antibiotics (Cipro) for 2 weeks. Since his last routine checkup, a couple of viruses infected our entire household. The consecutive colds haven’t…

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Year in Review 2009

Nathan’s year by the numbers 6,570 enzyme capsules 485 ml fat soluble vitamins 91 teaspoons of supplemental salt 520 ampules of Albuterol6,240 minutes inhaling Albuterol 420 puffs of Albuterol in MDI (inhaler) 14,600 minutes of chest pounding (CPT) 224 ampules of TOBI5,600 minutes inhaling TOBI 210 ampules of Hypertonic Saline4,200 minutes inhaling Hypertonic Saline At…

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Airway Clearance Techniques

Over the weekend, my handsome scruffy husband, although to me he is handsome either way, filmed me doing Nathan’s treatments. Many of my closest friends are still not quite sure how we spend a large majority of our time. This video portrays a typical morning (weekend) treatment session. During the weekdays I am solo. These…

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Paging Dr. A.

In lieu of recent vomiting activity events, I decided to give the CF clinic‘s respiratory center a call today at 9:30 am hoping to speak with one of three people, either his pediatric pulmonologist Dr. A., pediatric respiratory therapist S, or pediatric nurse K. I left a message with the receptionist indicating this since they…

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