June 17, 20232 yr Moderator Tuesday afternoon I attended the monthly ham radio club meeting as we were making plans for the upcoming summer Field Day exercises. Tuesday night I suffered from massive sinus drainage and spent the entire night in a constant coughing fit, unable to clear my trachea from the rapid buildup of phlegm constricting my airway. Wednesday morning I finally drove myself to the CHI St. Vincent Hospital in Hot Springs, AR. I went there because it is only an 8 mile drive rather than risk driving during rush hour to the VA Hospital in Little Rock, AR which is at best a one+ hour drive. Fortunately, given proper notice, the VA will cover the entire bill. Almost immediately they diagnosed as possible COPD, so admitted me to the ICU for testing and immediate treatment. Thursday morning, they transferred me to a unit that treats pulmonary patients. Since the breathing treatments quickly cleared up my airway so I could breathe again reliably, they arranged for the VA to supply home oxygen. Good grief! I now have a huge machine that manufactures oxygen for use while in the house. a HUGE backup tank in case of power failure, and eight smaller tanks and carrying bag for portable oxygen while traveling and shopping. Oh yes, I managed to miss the massive onslaught of baseball sized hail that managed to destroy the entire front of my landlady's mansion's 21 western facing massive glass windows! The only damage to my little cozy cottage was the outer pane of glass on my kitchen window but the inner glass held fast. Some of the plastic siding looks like woodpeckers have chipped away leaving lots of little holes and tears. Bless her heart, just last month she had new roofs installed on both houses, and now some of that will need to be repaired as well. It's just as well I drove to the hospital where I completely avoided the hail storm, as if my car had remained here at the cottage it would likely have suffered many dings and possible glass damage... <sigh> As you can probably figure out, I was cut loose around six o'clock this evening once delivery of the O2 was assured. Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
June 17, 20232 yr Glad to hear your home. Hope, you recover soon. Cheers and prayers. Feel better. Win 11 pro 64Bit, X670 AORUS ELITE AX, Ryzen 7 7800x3d, RTX 4080, 64Gig G-Skill 6000 DDR 5, Samsung 990 pro 2TB NVME.
June 17, 20232 yr Wow! get better soon, and be careful around ignition sources around oxygen. Jude BradleyBeech Baron: Uh, Tower, verify you want me to taxi in front of the 747?ATC: Yeah, it's OK. He's not hungry. X-Plane 12 and MSFS2020 🙂 System specs: Windows 11 Pro 64-bit, Ubuntu Linux 20.04 i7-13700KF Gigabyte Z790 RTX-4060-Ti , 32GB RAM 1X 2TB M2 for X-Plane 12, 1x256GB SSD for OS. 1TB drive MSFS2020
June 17, 20232 yr Sorry to hear of your COPD attack. My wire has emphysema/COPD and is also now on oxygen, a result of 4 decades of smoking cigarettes. 😢 My computer: ABS Gladiator Gaming PC featuring an Intel 10700F CPU, EVGA CLC-240 AIO cooler (dead fans replaced with Noctua fans), Asus Tuf Gaming B460M Plus motherboard, 16GB DDR4-3000 RAM, 1 TB NVMe SSD, EVGA RTX3070 FTW3 video card, dead EVGA 750 watt power supply replaced with Antec 900 watt PSU.
June 17, 20232 yr Administrators Glad to hear you are doing better, Bill! Thought about you when I heard about the storms! Careful with any open flames! Don't need to hear on the news of a small cottage in Ar. blowing up! 😀 Charlie AronAVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-RegistrarJust going to run a Chromebook and not upgrade to a Windows computer. Too many problems with the new Sims! 😱Trying to keep peace and harmony and the will of Landru on the site seems to be a full time job!
June 17, 20232 yr Author Moderator 4 hours ago, charliearon said: Glad to hear you are doing better, Bill! Thought about you when I heard about the storms! Careful with any open flames! Don't need to hear on the news of a small cottage in Ar. blowing up! 😀 Fortunately, the entire cottage is electric, so there's no open flame danger... Thanks for the well wishes. Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
June 18, 20232 yr Ill say some prayers for you Bill. Thank you. Rick $Silver Donor EAA 1317610 I7-7700K @ 4.5ghz, MSI Z270 Gaming MB, 32gb 3200, Geforce RTX2080 Super O/C, 28" Samsung 4k Monitor, Various SSD, HD, and peripherals
June 19, 20232 yr Get well Bill, poor lungs run in my family too at least it’s summer where you are so you can get out and get some fresh air Matthew Kane I'm Dyslexic, what's an error to you is not to me
June 19, 20232 yr 7 hours ago, Matthew Kane said: ... at least it’s summer where you are so you can get out and get some fresh air "If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen." Or at least, stay in the air conditioning. We're having an extreme heat warning here in north Texas. Usually 85 degrees is comfortably warm; today it's excruciating. (feels like 91 officially... feels like 101+ to me at the moment) Hook Larry Hookins Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of EarthAnd danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
June 19, 20232 yr 15 minutes ago, LHookins said: "If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen." Or at least, stay in the air conditioning. We're having an extreme heat warning here in north Texas. Usually 85 degrees is comfortably warm; today it's excruciating. (feels like 91 officially... feels like 101+ to me at the moment) Hook In Central Texas we had 102 with 74% humidity. It felt like hell to me. It has been brutal. Rain all around us increasing our humidity level yet no rain here.🥺 Bill W
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June 19, 20232 yr Author Moderator 3 hours ago, BillW said: In Central Texas we had 102 with 74% humidity. It felt like hell to me. It has been brutal. Rain all around us increasing our humidity level yet no rain here.🥺 ^^^^^ This is why I sold my two-way radio business in Kingsville, TX and moved up to Indiana four decades ago! It was so humid down by the Gulf Coast that it was nearly impossible to ever get dry after a shower... Unfortunately, I moved just a bit too far up north as the winter snows weren't a picnic either. Now that I've moved to southwest Arkansas, I'm much more comfortable. Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
June 20, 20232 yr This is why I moved to Wellington, New Zealand, it is never too hot, and never too cold, never too humid, never too dry, I consider this the best climate in the world for me Matthew Kane I'm Dyslexic, what's an error to you is not to me
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