Getting Home and Recovering

[liralen]

Spent the morning on Monday trying to sleep in... and then John and Jet and I hit the waterfront to eat at Ivar's and feed the seagulls. The seagulls were loud enough to be mildly intimidating, but it was really nice to just sit in the sun and eat and feed 'em. *laughs* Fish and chips, the clam chowder, and I had a pile of the clam and chips.

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[liralen]

Yeah, every time I hear a kid screaming their lungs out on the plane I am very, very, very thankful for Jet. It's really excellent luck to have a kid that is so easy.

It was a very fun trip, and yeah, we really loved the waterfront. *smiles*

[annieroo2]

What lovely memories with friends and family. Sorry the hubby didn't enjoy it as much with his cold, but it will make a lasting impression on your little boy and that's important too. :D

[liralen]

Very much so. We try to see the grandparents at least once a year and make sure to do it at their home as well as ours... so Jet'll be able to remember.

My parents never really knew their grandparents. John and I were only able to interact a little with ours. So it is really neat to be able to give Jet a relationship with his grandparents as much as possible. He learns things from them he couldn't learn from us, and it's really cool for them to know their grandkid as well.

[bloodthirstylt]

wow sounds like that was so fun and a very busy trip.

[liralen]

Yup... very. *laughs*

Hey, you should write more stories.. :-)

[bloodthirstylt]

I really just want to go somewhere. *laughs* I have no idea where other then it has to have water.

I have been trying to think of some...I have ideas, but they aren't really coming.

[xshelaghx]

What a fun trip! How great to meet Stark IRL.

You always have me drooling with your food descriptions. lol I think I've mentioned that before

[liralen]

It was very good to meet Stark IRL. Comfy.

It was a lot of fun, too.

Hee. I love food. *happy sigh*

Wow... neat that you kept it for so long! And, yeah, it's a newer edition of it, but beautifully colored... we both love it a lot, and it even has a ribbon for marking our place.

[tagryn]

Donna's cousin moved to Seattle with her husband a few years back and is living near Green Lake. We're anxious to go visit, and I'm interested to see how the place has changed since the mid-'90s. Ye Old Curiosity Shoppe is a definite must-visit; is the mummy still there?

So, how would you say your breathing situation compares in San Diego and Seattle, compared to Colorado?

[liralen]

Yes, the mummy is still there! Still creeped poor Jet out a little. *laughs*

It's different in Seattle, oddly enough, compared to San Diego. I think the doctor was right in his assessment of the fact that cold and humidity really does set off my asthma faster than having it be dry and cold the way it is here in Colorado.

But in San Diego it never gets *that* cold.

But I also had the cold. And I don't exactly know how much of it was the cold and how much I would have done anyway... but the asthma was worse, but I never woke up in Seattle feeling like I couldn't get enough oxygen. Three days after coming home I had another night of constantly waking up feeling like I was asphyxiating. *sighs* Not fun...

[tagryn]

So it sounds like if you moved to Seattle or SD, you'd have to use more/stronger asthma meds(?), but in Colorado there's the thinner-air problem? Its a tough situation to be in.

I admit ignorance, but is there any medical/tech remedy for the air-oxygen problem, at least while sleeping? I'm thinking something like an oxygen tent or the masks they use for apnea patients, but more high-tech and less obtrusive?

[liralen]

I'd probably just use my emergency inhaler more often. It's an odd situation to be in.

There is probably some kind of mask I could wear to sleep at night, but... I'd rarely need it at home. I'm usually acclimated okay. It's just on those transition times and when I'm sick. But extra oxy might be the way to do it, but it's pretty expensive compared to just taking a few extra breaths.