msde302
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- Jan 5, 2008
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- CALS
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- St. Paul
Good Friday Afternoon!
This morning we had our intake meeting with a home health agency so that we could start our respite care program courtesy of the ALS Association. Very excited!
It was the first time that my mom has had her temperature taken in AGES (they never do this at the clinic). Anyway, her temp was just below 96! And they took it a couple of times. Like many people living with ALS she goes from being hot one minute to freezing the next, tends to freakishly have one foot that it burning hot and the other ice cold. The nurse didn't seem phased by the fact that her temp was only 95.8. And my mom said she wasn't cold.
I can't seem to find much about what the affects of low body temp would be, or even if it's something ALS folks deal with, but I thought I'd see if anyone watches their temp much.
Also, as long as I'm here, they did one of those blood oxygen tests and she was at about 98%. Is this any sort of indicator we should be paying attention to? Her last blowing test with the respiratory therapist showed her strength at about 50%. Are these things at all related?
Any thoughts? Thanks so much!
Kaija
This morning we had our intake meeting with a home health agency so that we could start our respite care program courtesy of the ALS Association. Very excited!
It was the first time that my mom has had her temperature taken in AGES (they never do this at the clinic). Anyway, her temp was just below 96! And they took it a couple of times. Like many people living with ALS she goes from being hot one minute to freezing the next, tends to freakishly have one foot that it burning hot and the other ice cold. The nurse didn't seem phased by the fact that her temp was only 95.8. And my mom said she wasn't cold.
I can't seem to find much about what the affects of low body temp would be, or even if it's something ALS folks deal with, but I thought I'd see if anyone watches their temp much.
Also, as long as I'm here, they did one of those blood oxygen tests and she was at about 98%. Is this any sort of indicator we should be paying attention to? Her last blowing test with the respiratory therapist showed her strength at about 50%. Are these things at all related?
Any thoughts? Thanks so much!
Kaija