A GOOD Hello to all!
It seems like lots of warm weather is moving in on many of us, but after a few high 80-90+ degree days in the Denver, CO area, we are getting set to plunge back in th the 50's. The unpredictable weather is predictable here. I hope it doesn't get cold enough to nip my tomato and other plants. I am slowly getting back to a bit of exercising since Sunday's half marathon, and tentatively adding minutes each day���up to 40 last night. 15 on the exercycle, 15 on elliptical and another 10 trying out the exercise ball. My muscles- all over - are a little sore, so I don't want to push too hard after that long walk.
Today was my liquid oxygen delivery by Apria day. They do a good job, meticulously adhering to some formula for filling the reservoir tanks. BUT, no matter how hard they try, and check their pressure gauges, it always seems the tanks are below recommended pressure. Thus they do not
fill my portables with accurate pressure and delivery. For example: while set on the #6 might only be actually putting out 3 Liters. It can take hours or even a day for the reservoir to "settle" and come up to full pressure, delivering 6 for 6L.
IN ORDER TO AVOID PROBLEMS WITH A LOW FLOW - - - BEFORE the reservoirs are filled,
my husband fills every available liquid portable tank I have, enough to supply me with a day's worth of oxygen, and then I do not have to rely on the big reservoir until it is "settled".Sometimes, but rarely, they get it right. If you don't have spare tanks to fill before���It pays to have a liter meter gauge to check what flow your reservoir is putting out right away. If is is low, you can adjust to a higher NUMBER in order to get the flow you require.
See the 4 high flow liquid oxygen tanks in my baby jogger stroller. They are Y connected together, so I use some flow off each tank for the 3:30:28 that I walked. Using 4+4 combined together going to my TTO and the other 2 tanks Y'd together to feed my cannula. 16 liters was what I needed by the half point of the race. This is where - if I had filled these portables with a reservoir not properly settled - the tanks would not be delivering the number I set, and I would then discover it by feeling short of oxygen... my oxygen saturation being low as read out with an oximeter. All this equipment is vital to our well being. Jameson Medical sells the flow meter, but do click around the rest of their site for many other products.http://www.jamesonmedical.com/pages/liter_meter.htm
Dr. Petty book >http://en.nonin.com/documents/go2/6965-000-01%20Dr%20Petty%20GO2%20Brochure_ENG.
Links to somevideos+resources
Hydrotherapyhttp://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/hydrotherapy.html
keep moving , Lyn--Roxlyn G Cole,roxlyngcd@comcast.net
blog shortcuthttp://360.yahoo.com/roxlyngcd
A GOOD Hello to all!
It seems like lots of warm weather is moving in on many of us, but after a few high 80-90+ degree days in the Denver, CO area, we are getting set to plunge back in th the 50's. The unpredictable weather is predictable here. I hope it doesn't get cold enough to nip my tomato and other plants. I am slowly getting back to a bit of exercising since Sunday's half marathon, and tentatively adding minutes each day���up to 40 last night. 15 on the exercycle, 15 on elliptical and another 10 trying out the exercise ball. My muscles- all over - are a little sore, so I don't want to push too hard after that long walk.
Today was my liquid oxygen delivery by Apria day. They do a good job, meticulously adhering to some formula for filling the reservoir tanks. BUT, no matter how hard they try, and check their pressure gauges, it always seems the tanks are below recommended pressure. Thus they do not
fill my portables with accurate pressure and delivery. For example: while set on the #6 might only be actually putting out 3 Liters. It can take hours or even a day for the reservoir to "settle" and come up to full pressure, delivering 6 for 6L.
IN ORDER TO AVOID PROBLEMS WITH A LOW FLOW - - - BEFORE the reservoirs are filled,
my husband fills every available liquid portable tank I have, enough to supply me with a day's worth of oxygen, and then I do not have to rely on the big reservoir until it is "settled".Sometimes, but rarely, they get it right. If you don't have spare tanks to fill before���It pays to have a liter meter gauge to check what flow your reservoir is putting out right away. If is is low, you can adjust to a higher NUMBER in order to get the flow you require.
See the 4 high flow liquid oxygen tanks in my baby jogger stroller. They are Y connected together, so I use some flow off each tank for the 3:30:28 that I walked. Using 4+4 combined together going to my TTO and the other 2 tanks Y'd together to feed my cannula. 16 liters was what I needed by the half point of the race. This is where - if I had filled these portables with a reservoir not properly settled - the tanks would not be delivering the number I set, and I would then discover it by feeling short of oxygen... my oxygen saturation being low as read out with an oximeter. All this equipment is vital to our well being. Jameson Medical sells the flow meter, but do click around the rest of their site for many other products.http://www.jamesonmedical.com/pages/liter_meter.htm
Dr. Petty book >http://en.nonin.com/documents/go2/6965-000-01%20Dr%20Petty%20GO2%20Brochure_ENG.
Links to somevideos+resources
Hydrotherapyhttp://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/hydrotherapy.html
keep moving , Lyn--Roxlyn G Cole,roxlyngcd@comcast.net
blog shortcuthttp://360.yahoo.com/roxlyngcd