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hey sweetie, when you coming home?

on my way home from salem today, where the CCB gave me the official okeydokey to work as oregon's 153,160th licensed contractor (yay! finally!), i checked our mail and found waiting there your copy of American Family Physician. while having some of that yummy soup (which you poured out of the plastic before micro-nuking, right?), i read your favorite part, the Diary form a Week in Practice. This one was by Dr. John O'Handley who sees homeless patients in his Columbus, OH Mobile Outreach Program. i thought you'd find it pretty sweet:

Friday: Patients can often figure out ingenious ways to treat themselves when necessity forces their hand. Dr. O encountered a young woman today who has devised a treatment for acute shotness of breath. Her problem had been present for years and was brought on by hot weather, especially at night while lying flat. Activity in hot weather also seemed to precipitate the difficulty in breathing. She noticed wheezing at times and there was a family history of asthma. When Dr. O asked what she had been doing to make it better, she smiled sheepishly and asked, "You really want to know?" She had learned that when she feels as if she cannot draw another breath, she asks her boyfriend to blow forcefully into her mouth while holding her nose. This would "open her up" and provide several hours of relief. This was the first time Dr. O had heard of rescue breathing used for asthma. He provided the patient with a beta-agonist multidose inhaler for times when her boyfriend might not be available.

(I knew you'd also like the one about a guy's acute abcess, but that's one i don't really need to share with the group.) See you soon! hey does anyone know what happened to nonharmful.com? where'd it go? whaa!

Posted by elihu at October 16, 2002 03:33 PM | Category: personal news