The Joys of having CF

The Joys of having CF

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Awesome Appointment

Well today I had a dr. appt to see if the antibiotics worked from last month(when I had pnemonia), and they worked!! It was a great appointment. Last time the best FEV1(amount of air I can blow out) was 92%. My personal best is 97%. Which is awesome. See my predicted FEV1 is 101%, and how they predict that is, they compare me to somebody identical to me who doesn't have CF, and that's how they get the predicted amount of air I can blow(FEV1). So predicted for me is 101%. My personal best is 97% which is AMAZING for someone who has CF. Last time in January I was down from 97-92%. So that's down 5% which means something's up. So after 28 days of Tobi, and 2 weeeks of Bactrum, upping my vest to 3 times a day, and more excersing, I go in their today and my first blow is 93%, already better, then my second blow was 94%, and my last one, my all time best was 95%. Antibiotics worked...Tahiti here I come!!! I am all healthy! It's looking like so far i'm on track for a hospital free year. :)

So here's what my clinic/hospital look like(there's a bunch more that is not showing on the picture, it's a school campus, research center, clinic, and hospital). Next time I go back to the doctor in May, I will be at a different location(1 exit up) and at a different clinic/hospital. The pediatric center joined with a different clinic(which is great cause then there's more specialists, more dr's, more CF teams etc..) So this was my last visit to this place, until i'm an adult, then I get to go back.