Message from Damsel

Damsel in dis Dress said:

Wayne Boatwright said:

I am SO happy and relieved to see you, Carol! Get a good rest, then come
join us.

Thanks, Pookie! Doesn't look like I'm gonna get a nap in the immediate
future. Those fumes didn't do much for my allergies or my asthma. It's
easier to stay up and be dead on my feet than to lie down and start
choking.

My sympathies. As an allergy and asthma sufferer, I can more than relate.

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So you're stuck with me NOW! <EG>

No prob! I love your posts 🙂

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Carol

Boron Elgar said:

Damsel in dis Dress said:

Boron Elgar said:

Check with your insurance company about your policy and see if it
covers smoke damage. There are companies that will come in & clean
walls, carpets, drapes, upholstered pieces, etc., and get rid of the
smell.

Yeah, I'm sure it's covered, but we can take care of the surprisingly
little smoke damage. The main floor is just fine. No problem. What
really pisses me off (about myself) is that I had done a million loads of
laundry and stacked it all on a kitchen table I use for folding clean
clothes. I never brought the stuff upstairs and put it away. If I had, I
wouldn't have to re-wash 75% of our clothing. I think what we had was more
fumes than smoke. Visible fumes, but not smoke in the usual sense of the
word. I'm sure some electricity-savvy person will know what I'm talking
about and translate that statement into English.

Sigh. This is a habit I have, too. You may have broken me of it.

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And call your MD to be sure you have your meds handy, just it case it
really gets to you!

My nebulizer is plugged in and ready to be used at a moment's notice, and I
hoard inhalers, so there's at least one in every room of the house, and one
in my jacket pocket. I just took a couple Benadryl, and hope to be
drifting off to la-la land soon. Gotta be up in four hours, though.
American Idol is on. <G>

What's in the nebulizer - albuterol or Xopenex?

Oh my gosh, I missed Carol's reply. I thought I was strange for
hoarding inhalers. I use the dry turbohalers and I do have bricanyl in
every room! I can't take any drugs that make me drousey like Benadryl
because I have brittle asthma. My neb is always ready to go for that
reason. I really feel for Carol as I know what she is going through.
Hang tough Carol and I hope you have no complications!

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Both excellent pieces of advice. You're a good egg! 🙂

Sunny side up!

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Carol

Boron Elgar said:

Damsel in dis Dress said:

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What's in the nebulizer - albuterol or Xopenex?

Albuterol. Gotta use that stuff where I plan on staying for awhile. Makes
me really woozy. Is Xopenex something new, something I just haven't heard
of, or both?

I was just changed from albuterol to Xopenex, because the albuterol
make me feel like I had 20 cups of espresso (that is the food
reference that makes this post on topic). I do not know how new it
is, but my doc offered it when I told her about the shakes after
treatments

I use bricanyl as a reliever. It always gives me the shakes but no
where like albuterol!

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The Xopenex gives a bit of a buzzy feeling, but nothing like the
albuterol. The only trick is that albuterol is generic, and so it is
much cheaper than Xopenex. If you have good med insurance coverage,
ask your doc about it. It makes a big diff to me in how I feel after
treatment. I am fortunate that my plan covers it. (I also got them to
cover a portable, battery run nebulizer that is way smaller than a can
of soda.)

What about Advair or Singulair? Tried either or both?

Singulair has been a godsend for me! It takes a little while to build
up in your system but once it does the difference is substantial. My
only complaint is that Singulair is not covered with my drug plan and
that's after my dr sent in a special form. I pay $100 a month for
Singulair but it is well worth it. It keeps me from weekly visits to
emerg, drastically reduces my neb use, and has dramatically improved my
quality of life. It is one great drug!

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>Both excellent pieces of advice. You're a good egg! 🙂

Sunny side up!

All gold, like sunshine! 🙂

By the grace of the God and Clairol.

Boron

Damsel in dis Dress said:

Boron Elgar said:

I am fortunate that my plan covers it. (I also got them to
cover a portable, battery run nebulizer that is way smaller than a can
of soda.)

I'll check these things out with her. My current nebulizer is about the
size of a car battery, and I have good medical coverage. But right now,
I'm paying $15 a pop for 14 prescriptions every month. I'll be glad when I
reach the cap on the co-pays for this year.

Hey! You sound like me! I wish my Rx meds would apply to the co-pay,
though.

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What about Advair or Singulair? Tried either or both?

Advair has been a god-send for me. I've got to wait to refill it until
next Tuesday (see above). Thanks for the tip about Xopenex!

Anytime.

Happy breathing!

Boron
(Just call me Wheezy)

"Damsel in dis Dress" wrote in message

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And now, through the miracle of modern technology, we're back online!

Great news, Dams!

(snip)

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The Red Cross came and arranged for lodging for us (the lack of heat and
the stench of burning electrical stuff prevented us from staying home the
past two nights), gave us some "Clean-Up Kits" (toiletries so we wouldn't
reek from the fumes), and a homemade quilt for each of us that are ours to
keep. I will always cherish these tangible reminders of the goodness of
other people when we needed it the most. Those quilts are priceless.

Aren't they great? With our fire, the Red Cross was there at 2:30 a.m., got
us into the Sleep Inn for five nights and handed us bags with all necessary
toiletries and an authorization slip for necessities. I had lost all my
clothes so that was a godsend. I'll never want to hear anyone fault the Red
Cross again.

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First thing I did when the power was restored was to check the meat in the
freezer. It's all hard as a rock. Whew! I've been fretting over all
that
meat the entire time we were without power. There's a whole ham, a
turkey,
a huge slab of brisket, and a bunch of roasts and stuff. Thank goodness.
I honestly thought that we were going to be roasting/grilling everything
and freezing the cooked meat. I'm relieved. It's better when the stuff
is
freshly prepared.

Great news! That's one worry gone.

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In the past 36 hours, I've had 5 hours of sleep (not all at once). I'm
gonna go through my e-mails and take a lonnnnnnnnnnng nap!

Thanks for all the good wishes. We appreciate your kindness and concern.

Carol

Sleep well, Carol.

Dora

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:54:02 -0500, Serendipity <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Boron Elgar said:

Damsel in dis Dress said:

>What's in the nebulizer - albuterol or Xopenex?

Albuterol. Gotta use that stuff where I plan on staying for awhile. Makes
me really woozy. Is Xopenex something new, something I just haven't heard
of, or both?

I was just changed from albuterol to Xopenex, because the albuterol
make me feel like I had 20 cups of espresso (that is the food
reference that makes this post on topic). I do not know how new it
is, but my doc offered it when I told her about the shakes after
treatments

I use bricanyl as a reliever. It always gives me the shakes but no
where like albuterol!

That is a new one on me. I will check that out when I see the
allergist.

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The Xopenex gives a bit of a buzzy feeling, but nothing like the
albuterol. The only trick is that albuterol is generic, and so it is
much cheaper than Xopenex. If you have good med insurance coverage,
ask your doc about it. It makes a big diff to me in how I feel after
treatment. I am fortunate that my plan covers it. (I also got them to
cover a portable, battery run nebulizer that is way smaller than a can
of soda.)

What about Advair or Singulair? Tried either or both?

Singulair has been a godsend for me! It takes a little while to build
up in your system but once it does the difference is substantial. My
only complaint is that Singulair is not covered with my drug plan and
that's after my dr sent in a special form. I pay $100 a month for
Singulair but it is well worth it. It keeps me from weekly visits to
emerg, drastically reduces my neb use, and has dramatically improved my
quality of life. It is one great drug!

It has made a difference to me, that's for sure. This is all
relatively new to me in the last year. How I went through 54 years
with no breathing problems & then got asthma symptoms is weird, I
guess, and it sure has been exciting (like the rush to the ER when I
can't breathe. Boy, I never thought people in the ER could run so
fast. Short of a heart attack, I don't think anything gets you waited
on faster than a barely squeaked out "I can't breathe."

Gotta keep those airways open, or we can't enjoy rfc & playing around
in the kitchen!

Boron

Damsel wrote:

And now, through the miracle of modern technology, we're back online!

****************
Good to see you, Carol! Glad everybody is OK! You got back just in
time. We were getting ready to start rumors that all the smoke might
have been cooking related. <g>

Michael

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:38:20 -0600, Damsel in dis Dress
<[email hidden]> connected the dots and wrote:

~Wayne Boatwright <[email hidden]>, if that's their real name, wrote:
~
~>I am SO happy and relieved to see you, Carol! Get a good rest, then
come
~>join us.
~
~Thanks, Pookie! Doesn't look like I'm gonna get a nap in the
immediate
~future. Those fumes didn't do much for my allergies or my asthma.
It's
~easier to stay up and be dead on my feet than to lie down and start
~choking.
~
~So you're stuck with me NOW! <EG>
~
~Carol

Can't think of many folks I'd rather be stuck with! You're a peach,
you trollop, you.

Hugs,
maxine in ri

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:16:23 -0600, Damsel in dis Dress
<[email hidden]> connected the dots and wrote:

~ If I wrote an
~autobiography, no one would believe everything that one person had
gone
~through. But, like I keep reminding Crash ... a lot of horrible
things
~happen to us, but they happen in the best way possible. I don't know
why,
~but we're being watched over, and I'm very grateful for that love and
~protection.

A friend once said that my guardian angel works overtime, because I
get into so many mudpuddles and come out looking like the end of a
Chlorox ad...<G>

maxine in ri

Michael' said:

Good to see you, Carol! Glad everybody is OK! You got back just in
time. We were getting ready to start rumors that all the smoke might
have been cooking related. <g>

LOL! We were very reassured at the Motel Hell when I overestimated the
time it would take to microwave a Pop-[censored]. There was smoke billowing out
of the microwave (first and only time that this has ever happened), and it
didn't set off the smoke alarm, which is mounted directly above the oven.
The fun just never ends! Heehee!

Carol
--
"Years ago my mother used to say to me... She'd say,
'In this world Elwood, you must be oh-so smart or oh-so pleasant.'
Well, for years I was smart.... I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."

*James Stewart* in the 1950 movie, _Harvey_

On Wed 09 Mar 2005 06:35:13p, Damsel in dis Dress wrote in
rec.food.cooking:

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Michael' said:

Good to see you, Carol! Glad everybody is OK! You got back just in
time. We were getting ready to start rumors that all the smoke might
have been cooking related. <g>

LOL! We were very reassured at the Motel Hell when I overestimated the
time it would take to microwave a Pop-[censored]. There was smoke billowing
out of the microwave (first and only time that this has ever happened),
and it didn't set off the smoke alarm, which is mounted directly above
the oven. The fun just never ends! Heehee!

Carol

If you have a commercial company come to eradicate the smoke odors and
they choose to use an ozone unit, make sure that no living thing remains
in the house while it's being treated. The high ozone levels can kill.

--
Wayne Boatwright
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:56:03 -0600, Damsel in dis Dress
<[email hidden]> connected the dots and wrote:

~Melba's Jammin' <[email hidden]>, if that's their real
name,
~wrote:
~
~>In article <[email hidden]>,
~>[email hidden] wrote:
~>(snip)
~>> First thing I did when the power was restored was to check the
meat
~>> in the freezer. It's all hard as a rock.
~>
~>What'd I tell you! Hurrah!
~
~Yeppers! But the cranberries in the refrigerator freezer were mushy.
We
~bought ten bags of them when they were on sale after Christmas. I'm
giving
~serious consideration into making a gigantic batch of
cranberry-orange
~relish and freezing it in small containers.
~
~Carol

If they still had ice crystals in them, they can be refrozen with no
problem. If they were totally thawed, I've got a great recipe for
cranberry nut bread, cranberry muffins, things like that.

maxine in ri

maxine in ri said:

A friend once said that my guardian angel works overtime, because I
get into so many mudpuddles and come out looking like the end of a
Chlorox ad...<G>

Wow! I usually come out looking like the beginning of a Shout commercial.

Carol
--
"Years ago my mother used to say to me... She'd say,
'In this world Elwood, you must be oh-so smart or oh-so pleasant.'
Well, for years I was smart.... I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."

*James Stewart* in the 1950 movie, _Harvey_

maxine in ri <[email hidden]>, if that's their real name, wrote:

Re: thawed cranberries

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If they still had ice crystals in them, they can be refrozen with no
problem. If they were totally thawed, I've got a great recipe for
cranberry nut bread, cranberry muffins, things like that.

Lay 'em on me!
Carol
--
"Years ago my mother used to say to me... She'd say,
'In this world Elwood, you must be oh-so smart or oh-so pleasant.'
Well, for years I was smart.... I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."

*James Stewart* in the 1950 movie, _Harvey_

"Damsel in dis Dress" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Wayne Boatwright said:

I am SO happy and relieved to see you, Carol! Get a good rest, then come
join us.

Thanks, Pookie! Doesn't look like I'm gonna get a nap in the immediate
future. Those fumes didn't do much for my allergies or my asthma. It's
easier to stay up and be dead on my feet than to lie down and start
choking.

So you're stuck with me NOW! <EG>

Carol
====================

Holy [censored]!

I'm happy to hear things are improving! Geez, I take a few days off to do
taxes and look what happens!

Thinking of you,
Cyndi

Damsel in dis Dress said:

in my jacket pocket. I just took a couple Benadryl, and hope to be
drifting off to la-la land soon. Gotta be up in four hours, though.
American Idol is on. <G>

Ohh, you watch that too! :-)

I hope you got your much needed sleep.

Boron Elgar said:

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:54:02 -0500, Serendipity <[email hidden]>

Quoted message said:

Boron Elgar said:

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 15:20:46 -0600, Damsel in dis Dress
<[email hidden]> wrote:

>>What's in the nebulizer - albuterol or Xopenex?
>
>Albuterol. Gotta use that stuff where I plan on staying for awhile. Makes
>me really woozy. Is Xopenex something new, something I just haven't heard
>of, or both?

I was just changed from albuterol to Xopenex, because the albuterol
make me feel like I had 20 cups of espresso (that is the food
reference that makes this post on topic). I do not know how new it
is, but my doc offered it when I told her about the shakes after
treatments

I use bricanyl as a reliever. It always gives me the shakes but no
where like albuterol!

That is a new one on me. I will check that out when I see the
allergist.

The drug name for bricanyl is terbutaline, a short-acting beta2-agonist.
I also use symbicort which is anti-inflammatory corticosteroid
budesonide (Pulmicort®) and the rapid- and long-lasting bronchodilator
formoterol (Oxis®) in a single inhaler.

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The Xopenex gives a bit of a buzzy feeling, but nothing like the
albuterol. The only trick is that albuterol is generic, and so it is
much cheaper than Xopenex. If you have good med insurance coverage,
ask your doc about it. It makes a big diff to me in how I feel after
treatment. I am fortunate that my plan covers it. (I also got them to
cover a portable, battery run nebulizer that is way smaller than a can
of soda.)

What about Advair or Singulair? Tried either or both?

Singulair has been a godsend for me! It takes a little while to build
up in your system but once it does the difference is substantial. My
only complaint is that Singulair is not covered with my drug plan and
that's after my dr sent in a special form. I pay $100 a month for
Singulair but it is well worth it. It keeps me from weekly visits to
emerg, drastically reduces my neb use, and has dramatically improved my
quality of life. It is one great drug!

It has made a difference to me, that's for sure. This is all
relatively new to me in the last year. How I went through 54 years
with no breathing problems & then got asthma symptoms is weird, I
guess, and it sure has been exciting (like the rush to the ER when I
can't breathe. Boy, I never thought people in the ER could run so
fast. Short of a heart attack, I don't think anything gets you waited
on faster than a barely squeaked out "I can't breathe."

There is nothing like adult onset asthma 🙁 I was diagnosed almost 8
years ago. Two of those years were pure hell as my then doctor treated
ineffectively and failed to see I was reacting to the propellant in the
inhalers. I finally saw a specialist who changed everything to dry
inhalers. I went through a few different meds before getting stabilized
on the turbuhalers. Finally, Singulair was added

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Gotta keep those airways open, or we can't enjoy rfc & playing around
in the kitchen!

I hear you!

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Boron

Denise~* said:

Damsel in dis Dress said:

Gotta be up in four hours, though. American Idol is on. <G>

Ohh, you watch that too! :-)

Yup. I was disappointed that one of the women went through and that
another, with a much nicer voice, didn't. I'm not naming names.

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I hope you got your much needed sleep.

2 hours yesterday afternoon, and 3 hours tonight. I think I'm scared to
sleep. Rationally, I know that our home is much safer now, but I'm not
sure the emotional part of me has come to grips with that just yet. Crash
is doing the opposite. He's been awake for about as long as I've been
asleep this week.

Carol
--
"Years ago my mother used to say to me... She'd say,
'In this world Elwood, you must be oh-so smart or oh-so pleasant.'
Well, for years I was smart.... I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."

*James Stewart* in the 1950 movie, _Harvey_

Rick & Cyndi' said:

Holy [censored]!

I'm happy to hear things are improving! Geez, I take a few days off to do
taxes and look what happens!

I told you. Taxes are evil. 😉

Carol
--
"Years ago my mother used to say to me... She'd say,
'In this world Elwood, you must be oh-so smart or oh-so pleasant.'
Well, for years I was smart.... I recommend pleasant. You may quote me."

*James Stewart* in the 1950 movie, _Harvey_

: If they still had ice crystals in them, they can be refrozen with
no
: problem. If they were totally thawed, I've got a great recipe for
: cranberry nut bread, cranberry muffins, things like that.
:
: maxine in ri

please post!