an insight into my life with severe asthma, advocacy, awareness & research
https://youtu.be/sYYjzNS3c3A I was asked to record a video for part of the Respiratory Critical Care session at the European Respiratory Society Congress. The session was titled "New Developments in Mechanical Ventilation and Ventilator Weaning" and my video was to focus on my experience of being weaned from a ventilator. Im not going to lie it… Continue reading Patient Experience of Mechanical Ventilation
not a good combination. A few weeks ago in the press there was a lot of interest in the story surrounding the UK inhaler group Vectura and Philip Morris International. Philip Morris International is one of the largest if not the largest tobacco company in the world. Vectura is a pharmaceutical company in the UK… Continue reading Inhaler industry + tobacco industry= ……
Watch the webinar I took part in for ICUsteps. I spoke about my experience of being a young person in ICU.
Perspectives of being a younger person in the Intensive Care Unit. Over the years I written about my experiences in ICU in a very factual manner but I have never really spoken about the true impact it has had on me and even now I don't really tell people all the details of some things.… Continue reading ICUsteps Webinar
How can you feel like the odd one out at an ICU support group? I have written before many times that due to my asthma I end up in ICU a lot. I have written about my time in ICU and what happened but I don't think I have written much about the psychological impact… Continue reading Feeling like the odd one out at ICU support group
How do you get from Fearnan to Perth in 30 minutes and Perth to Dundee in 15 minutes. A blue lighted ambulance!! (This might be a bit of a long one but I need to get it down on paper so to speak) With severe asthma you think you have experienced everything when it comes… Continue reading Experiencing a new hospital!
Tuesday evening I had a fantastic time. It was the first meeting for the Critical Care Patient and Public Involvement Group in Edinburgh. Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in Scotland is no where near as organised as it is in England and funding is woeful, so to establish and run a group is a huge… Continue reading Critical Care does PPI
I have written often about being admitted to intensive care or the high dependancy unit or being reviewed by critical care staff and it always something I have just sort of dealt with and not thought to much more about it. That was until last night. I couldn't sleep for tossing and turning thinking about… Continue reading The Intensive Care Unit
I have quite a few different blogs in my head after my last hospital admission due to a variety of things that happened. Where better than to start at the beginning. It was the usual start= difficulty breathing so did I usual nebuliser treatments and thought I should probably call 999 as I wasn't getting… Continue reading Patient Centred Care
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