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MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Apr 26 2:34pm | Replies (14)
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@irenea8 so glad you are back home and feeling better. I agree with running the distilled water through the life pitcher (or boiling as scoop suggests). I was recently in pulmonary rehab and many started the program on oxygen and improved enough through the program to go off or use only intermittently. If you can get yourself into an out patient pulmonary rehab program I would recommend that for you. They have oxygen and are constantly measuring vitals etc so it is a very safe space to build up lung capacity and strength (which helps lung capacity go farther).
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Just as a note regarding our local Pulmonary Rehap and something to think about before entering a rehab facility.
The local pulmonary rehap here does not require anyone to wear a mask and I'm thinking they should know what they are doing and if that is O.K. so I somewhat did not give it another thought. Not good. I understand NYU does require masks in pulmonary rehap per a patient that read my story here on Mayo about my local hospital pulmonary rehab and what followed for me. I had not had Covid since the beginning of the announcement until my three visits to the local rehab in 2024. I masked, mask, in all other public facilities and do to this day.
True I don't know for sure if it did happen there but that was the only thing I did totally different in four years, since the announcement of Covid. I went on the suggestion of a Nurse Practitioner who meant well but may not have known they do not mask in this hospital pulmonary rehab.
P.S. As a concerned person I made my call to the head person in the Rehap Facility and also the Administrator of the Department to give my facts and thoughts. Needless to say nothing they said made good common sense or sense at all, to me any way.
Barbara