Was an RN for 35 years,
I have more understanding now of Healthcare System by having several health challenges of my own. MS,OSA,HTN,DM2, Iatrogenic Gadolinium Retention (only one gets the eye roll 🙄). Only Now, I get the old familiar How ‘ya doin’? @ouraring documents 🙏🏼😎
I was concerned @MedicareGov or VT Blue Cross Supplement would actually deny my @ResMed CPAP replacement after Phillips recalled, I went without for a month,really started to deteriorate. @oura helping me document my decline then immediate improvement. July 23 got Resmed device.
There is Bias in Healthcare,
labels are given.
Fat people were inherently lazy? Undisciplined?
People who hadn’t bathed recently Slobs?
Type A person: successful business person.
Farmer had more drive, not labeled Type A.
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@JaniceDean
I couldn’t believe
1️⃣ Governors could even Direct Patient Flow In and Out of Hospital-Long Term Care Facilities (practicing medicine w/o license)
2️⃣ Medical Directors, Hospital Administrators, LTC Facility Owners, Liability Insurance Providers didn’t know better 🤔
Part 2. Everyone is off the hook. Owners still profit, billing @MedicareGov@MHPA Medicaid, Private Insurance, Private Pay Estate depleting. Governors still receiving votes, contributions, freedom from any accountability. Contrast when a nurse aid drops a fork and keeps feeding.
Part 3. Doctors can rest easy now. They wrote the orders to discharge from Hospital or accept the infected patients To Long Term Care Facilities. No worries. No testifying against Governors. No sweat.
Billing people and insurance won’t have to rework claims or pay settlements.
I am Bewildered by both cumulative sleep deprivation and the Resistance of DME Providers to Even Try to make the claim for a Replacement of this Terribly Designed CPAP Nightmare Scenario. Millions of Sleep Deprived Sufferers of #OSA stop breathing at night.
It’s Bad. Way bad 😱
My Dentist 🦷 assessed my TMJ clicking. I woke up in the night,ripped out my bite guard and started chewing my thumb. He asked if I was on CPAP. Why, yes, I said, but Phillips recalled and I can’t get a new one. He said I deoxygenated and wake up biting. Dental reflects Mental 😫
Coincidentally, I’m using @ouraring to monitor sleep and activity, HRV,HR, and more. Off CPAP sleeping way below needs. But of course, Patient information is anecdotal, Or Not?? Using @Apollo_Neuro device is designed by Neuroscientists. Have Yours yet @dagenmcdowell ?
Since September 2020 when I got @ouraring and added to my @Apollo_Neuro wrist Neuromodulator 🤔
Continue to now, a steady increase in HRV (I call it the Fifth vital sign) @shiftms@Gemsallen@GavinGiovannoni Dip in May corresponded to Big Seizure ER visit, UTI, Subtherapeutic sz meds.
This week gained enough energy to tackle my #CPAP Issue.
I never got this philips.com/c-dam/b2bhc/ma… my DME provider says not their responsibility. I threw my machine away @MedicareGov After 2 months I called DME provider for replacement. She said “it’s Phillips’ responsibility.
I talked to my Doctor initially and thought I could live without.Then had big seizure and terrible sleep-lack of. DME person scolded me for throwing away a defective machine when offered No Guidance. I never want to see another Phillips machine!! No filter for me! I want Resmed!
I told DME lady I almost bought one retail but I have great insurance. She said they sell res med retail. I want one of those. You can’t was all she said. Millions of people are going without CPAP because Phillips is dragging their feet. There is no fix. There are consequences.
People think “Hospice” when they hear #Palliative Care. Neither term understood. Nobody feels comfortable with Death, Dying or Moaning in Pain. No Doctor is Comfortable saying, There’s nothing more we can do. My latest battle #MedicalCannabis is Sort of legal in Virginia.
For me, Cannabis offers a state of less pain and feeling better. Legislators and Doctor Governor @RalphNortham allowed bizarre restrictions like no dispensary near me, 4 plants per Household, no matter size of household, can’t buy it. Can’t have more than 1 ounce.
Now Electronic Vaping products might be outlawed? I recently discovered Delta Effex deltaeffex.com Delta 8 and Delta 10 with Terpenes. The day Cannabis went legal in VA, July 1st 2021, I put down my pipe and picked up my Delta Vapor. Excellent effects! ⬆️ energy ⬇️Pain.
So imagine my surprise as Virginia USA Quasi-Legalized a measured amount of Cannabis, There are New Laws and Regulations (feel the price of a nickel sack go astronomical) in pipe-line.
Banning Post office from delivering vaping products, and Other carriers will be banned too 🤔
Ahhh, I get it, the Legislators formulate their law building by the forces of Money Flow. Delta Effex developed and makes a Superior Hemp Product (legalized under Farm Bill). THC<0.3%. With #Terpenes that promotes, for me, less pain, more active, feel Better ❤️🩹