Thanks, Sam and Charlene…

Indeed, a D or E tank is what I’m looking to experiment with. For some reason, the medical oxygen suppliers around Marin and Sonoma counties in California say they won’t handle “portable” oxygen tanks. Your experience inclines me to insist with them.

I’m also looking into a possible workaround with welder’s oxygen…

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That’s an impressively thorough system, John.

A question I have for the group here is this:

I want to try a light oxygen TANK for walk-around use. I get good value from the Inogen G5 concentrator for assistance with weight workouts, but for walking around, it’s too noisy and heavy (5.5 pounds), and it provides very limited oxygen–just a…

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Fascinating and hopeful..

https://www.genengnews.com/topics/artificial-intelligence/insilicos-ai-candidate-for-ipf-doses-first-patient-in-phase-ii/

Here’s what I did in the first few months after I was diagnosed with IPF. I reported about it to the two doctors I was working with about half a year later–last March. (Now, five months later still, I’m continuing the program, breathing fine, and even gained weight now over 150 pounds.) I’m 83.
–Stewart… Read more

You might want to try an Airofit device.  It’s a kind of training spirometer that athletes (and others) use to increase their lung capacity and the strength and control of their breathing.

I’ve been using one for a couple weeks, training for a few minutes every morning.  Even in that time my lung capacity and inhaling strength increased… Read more

(Ahem. It was my DOCTOR who said flu shot effectiveness is short-lived.)

Got booster 10 days ago just by walking into CVS and asking. No qualifications required. I wanted Moderna (said to be better against the Delta variant), but they said CDC required I get same as before, Pfizer it was.

They offered a flu shot as well, so I got that as well. (My said it’s better to get flu shot in September, just before flu… Read more