Tom's Support
Distinguished member
- Joined
- Mar 1, 2010
- Messages
- 201
- Reason
- CALS
- Diagnosis
- 08/2000
- Country
- CA
- State
- ON
- City
- Leaskdale
When Tom was going through the sampling of various masks for the bipap machine, I was watching his face.
His eyes were expressing the same distress he had with the pneumonia and his inability to get rid of the phlegm in his bronchial tubes.
I studied what the machine was doing and watched his face and it dawned on me!
I asked him: Tom is this machine like facing into a gale force wind and trying to catch your breath?
He nodded: YES
I get it now, I don't like the struggle to catch your breath when the wind is busy whipping the air by you so fast that you cannot pull the air in. Our instinct is to turn away from the wind, and the mask is pushing it straight at you.
This sensation is very unique, but with practice, practice, practice I think (hope) that breathing in the breeze will become less distressing for him, it is the only thing we can do to keep him going. Training the body to get over instinct is not easy. SCUBA -- breathing under water when your mind is saying HOLD YOUR BREATH, YOU ARE UNDER WATER
Yep, I totally get this.
His eyes were expressing the same distress he had with the pneumonia and his inability to get rid of the phlegm in his bronchial tubes.
I studied what the machine was doing and watched his face and it dawned on me!
I asked him: Tom is this machine like facing into a gale force wind and trying to catch your breath?
He nodded: YES
I get it now, I don't like the struggle to catch your breath when the wind is busy whipping the air by you so fast that you cannot pull the air in. Our instinct is to turn away from the wind, and the mask is pushing it straight at you.
This sensation is very unique, but with practice, practice, practice I think (hope) that breathing in the breeze will become less distressing for him, it is the only thing we can do to keep him going. Training the body to get over instinct is not easy. SCUBA -- breathing under water when your mind is saying HOLD YOUR BREATH, YOU ARE UNDER WATER
Yep, I totally get this.