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@kathyjjb Thanks so much everyone: Kathy , I will keep the doctors names if I ever get to NJH.
I see I forgot to say when I got to the hospital I had pneumonia in both lungs . That was in Sept. of this year. The doctors at Rose hospital encouraged me to get to NJH. They also got me started on the nebulizing treatments at home and wanted me to get a vest. My Kaiser pulmonary wasn't positive about that , he said you've had back surgery and you might brake a rib using it. I went ahead and checked into it anyway and they are expensive and they are a rental from the company kaiser uses. A lot of self care with this disease.
Thanks again all. JoAnn
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@sickalot Sepsis is so scary, I was thinking you must have had bad pneumonia to get sepsis. I'm sure glad you got through it. Also, good that you are nebulizing, hopefully with 7% twice daily. When I was at NJH, Dr put order through for vest and it was approved and paid for by insurance company. I cannot use the vest since it gave me vertigo. I hope you call NJH soon, it took me 4 months to get in. It only took Roz 6 weeks, but she did not have a confirmed NTM diagnosis, so I believe she was assigned a pulm as lead dr. My lead dr. was ID, due to confirmed MABC diagnosis. Roz, can you chime in? if I'm wrong.