Thanksgiving

If I had to describe the Thanksgiving weekend in one word it would be "GREAT". My breathing and stamina were better than they've been in a long time. Maybe since early October. It wasn't until tonight (4 days after being drained) that the S.O.B. became noticeable again.

This couldn't have happened at a better time. I was able to spend the time with my kids and grandkids rather than being pinned to the recliner all weekend. Although we had a slight dusting of snow the weather was nice enough for the kids to blow off some steam outside. Will, Oscar, Joe, Nick and Felix looked like a ragtag bunch of explorers out to conquer the wilderness (well maybe just the backyard).

On Friday I walked, without oxygen, down to the mailbox to get the newspaper. I would guess the round trip distance to be about 200feet. I was a little out of breath but it didn't take very long to recover without even hitting the oxygen.

Usually, when I'm short of breath my recovery takes about a minute of breathing with oxygen before my respiration rate drops down to normal. One possible way to measure my stamina would be to estimate how far I can walk before I need a one minute recovery period. There have been times when that distance was less than 10 ft.