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  • Gordon White

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    October 4, 2019 at 1:58 pm in reply to: Aloha from Hawaii

    Thanks for sharing your trip.  The great memories will last a lifetime.

    Kona is my very favorite coffee.  Wonderful stuff!

    One question or observation –  If you breath better there and need less oxygen, what is the elevation?  I am now living in Florida at an elevation of 60 feet above sea level and breathe much better than I did when I lived in Virginia where the house was at 1,900 feet.

    Gordon

     

     

  • Gordon White

    Member
    August 16, 2019 at 11:00 am in reply to: Overheating as a Patient with Pulmonary Fibrosis

    I have Mayo Clinic diagnosed Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis since 2012 and use O2 24/7.  For the past 4 years, the wife says the house is too hot and I say it’s too cold.   She can tolerate the thermostat set at 79 degrees F and I do too with the use of a long sleeve flannel shirt.

    Never once have I considered the cold intolerance to be a side effect of IPF.  At 83, there are too many other possibilities.  I do not believe that heat intolerance is a proven side effect of IPF.  Thank of the thousands of people with heat intolerance who do not have IPF.