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What do you do when seasonal "bugs" upset holiday plans?
MAC & Bronchiectasis | Last Active: Jan 1 11:45am | Replies (38)Comment receiving replies
@sueinmn Thank you for the information above. Does it make sense to wear a mask when you first arrive at someone's home ( my friends like to hug) and then remove it once inside. My daughter says she doesn't see the point in that, either keep it on the entire time or not wear it at all. I do wear the mask everywhere I go, and keep it on in church for an hour and a half. I have been fortunate not to have gotten sick in over a year. I do have MAC but have not started meds. It will be 3 years in April since diagnosed. I am 77. Thank you for all the great advice you share, I am so thankful I found this group. Happy New Year to everyone on this site and God Bless all of you.
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@bbeers You and I are living with a MAC infection and have chosen not to do the antibiotics, so far. I also have done fine so far after the diagnosis in 2022 with BE and then in 2023 having found out I had a MAC infection (Intercellular) I apparently had the infection long before being told I had a lung infection and therefore was living with it and not knowing what it was. I am ahead of you...83 + two months.
I would say not masking when you hug another, you've been lucky. It is a matter of how long will your/our luck (in a sense) stay with us.
Personally, as much as we don't want to mask inside or with gatherings...it's probably best to do. I am concerned with someone getting too close....and not realizing they are in a contagious stage of an illness. I truly do not want to feel miserable, hospitalized etc. and also have to do BE therapy with nebulizing and huff coughing. I'd probably not be up to doing some part of all I do during my A.M. and P.M. sessions. So, I TRY to be extra cautious....
Barbara