Thanks so much for your reply. Every bit helps me stay connected and not feeling so isolated.
FYI, my Pulmo at Ucla doesn’t do regular sputum samples. He’s very attuned to the problem of over treating with too many antibiotics.
I have had two bronchoscopies and the last showed some Aspergillus, Mac and MSSA
However, I’ve been previously treated with so many antibiotics. He wants me to just concentrate on airway clearance and has reduced me to once a day. I hope that’s enough, especially since I have this in three lobes
I’m not sure, but I believe he said that these were just samples and had not necessarily formed to colonies yet. However, something has caused my be to progress from one lobe to three Especially after doing two surgeries which were supposed to alleviate The progressionand I’m wondering if anyone else has multi lobe or multifocal illness
Yes, the pneumonia I had for such a length. Eventually caused an and my upper right lobe became necrotic with cavitation.

I asked him how much of my lung was affected by a Beand he said 20%
He then said I have moderate BE .
Thanks for checking the time to read Jill