Job, what do you do

[Doc]

I may need your help @Doc My wife was diagnosed with heart failure a few months ago and there is nothing they can do for her other than a transplant. When we were teenagers she was diagnosed with Leukemia and she was given less than a 5% chance to survive. Well 30 years and 3 sons later her left ventricle is operating at 15 to 20 percent and they know it is from the chemotherapy she had back then. However, she has beaten so much in her life we know this is just another bump in the road and she will beat this too.

Stick with your Cardiologist, I’m sure she is on some Diuretics (IE) Lasix or HCTZ, and some drug to increase Force of Contraction (IE) Digitalis and should lose weight if she can. But by all means her Cardiologist Knows best.
Regards
Doc

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[24dRanger]

@VegasP11 prayers for you and your wife.

I grew up in Hamlin, NY. After high school I worked construction until starting computer engineering at RIT. Only to discover that I couldn’t afford it so 30 years ago last week I left one of the biggest ice storms in western NY to start Air Force basic training. I got my number one job as a programmer. I spent 9.5 years enlisted, 14 year as a contractor and currently 7 as a civilian programmer. Currently trying to help military justice migrate out of the stone age and into the cloud. Oh, and with no budget to do so ... yay for us.

 

[Tracy Bowman]

M.D. , Medical Legal Analyst for Law Firm Lanza and O’Conner Coral Gables Fla , Caduceus Insurance company and others .. Past Director of Cardiopulmonary Svcs. ,Respiratory, Pulmonary, Neurology and Cardiology Departments Shands Hospital , University of Florida..Retired 2002 ..
Regards,
Doc

Right up my alley Doc! I began in Respiratory Therapy in 1981 while still in Respiratory school. Worked in Resp. 19 years before being moved and cross-trained in Neuro Testing where I have been these past 21 years.

 

[Doc]

Right up my alley Doc! I began in Respiratory Therapy in 1981 while still in Respiratory school. Worked in Resp. 19 years before being moved and cross-trained in Neuro Testing where I have been these past 21 years.

Yes, I was a Registered Respiratory Therapist for 13 years before going to med school. I worked with Dr. Robert Kirby in the development of IMV, SIMV, PEEP, CPAP in the 70’s ..
Regards and Congratulations ..
Doc

 

[Tracy Bowman]

Yes, I was a Registered Respiratory Therapist for 13 years before going to med school. I worked with Dr. Robert Kirby in the development of IMV, SIMV, PEEP, CPAP in the 70’s ..
Regards and Congratulations ..
Doc

You may have known or heard of Dr. Donald Tysinger who helped create the Bird IPPB machine? I worked with him in my early years at the hospital. Learned alot from him. Had to do a blood gas on him once & was scared to death.

 

[Doc]

You may have known or heard of Dr. Donald Tysinger who helped create the Bird IPPB machine? I worked with him in my early years at the hospital. Learned alot from him. Had to do a blood gas on him once & was scared to death.

I haven’t heard of him but I have met Forest Bird and Jack Emerson. Kirby helped in the development of the Baby Bird which was the basis for some of our IMV systems....Small World ...
Regards

 

[P. A. Schilke]

I haven’t heard of him but I have met Forest Bird and Jack Emerson. Kirby helped in the development of the Baby Bird which was the basis for some of our IMV systems....Small World ...
Regards

Hi Doc,

There is a Forest Bird Museum outside Sandpoint Idaho. It is not well known and you have to take back roads to find it. Quite interesting on the development of the Bird respirator and ancillary devices. Couple old Iron Lungs for comparison. Forest at that time flew his old PBY float plane in and out of his house on Lake Pend Oreille. I found some of the subtle differences in some of the machines above my understanding, but all in all...a neat place. Forest was quite the inventor!

If I can find pictures I have archived from my visit with my friend, Professor Roz Hill of UofA who has a summer place on Lake Pend Oreille, I will post them..

best,
Phil Schilke
Ranger Vehicle Engineering
Ford Motor Co. Retired

 

[Doc]

Hi Doc,

There is a Forest Bird Museum outside Sandpoint Idaho. It is not well known and you have to take back roads to find it. Quite interesting on the development of the Bird respirator and ancillary devices. Couple old Iron Lungs for comparison. Forest at that time flew his old PBY float plane in and out of his house on Lake Pend Oreille. I found some of the subtle differences in some of the machines above my understanding, but all in all...a neat place. Forest was quite the inventor!

If I can find pictures I have archived from my visit with my friend, Professor Roz Hill of UofA who has a summer place on Lake Pend Oreille, I will post them..

best,
Phil Schilke
Ranger Vehicle Engineering
Ford Motor Co. Retired

Very Cool !
I published an article in Critical Care Medicine regarding the Bird Mark 8....If you wish, Pm me for the details..
Regards
Doc

 

[Hank the Tank]

Started as a mover during the summers in high school to make some walking around money. After graduating, I worked as a technician/fabricator on remote operated vehicles (ROVs) at an engineering company. Our clients included law enforcement (FBI, Coast Guard, sheriff's departments), defense (Israel, NSWC) and nuclear (GE). I joined the Navy in 2009 and served 9-1/2 years as a Naval Aircrewman (Avionics) and as a "C" school instructor. I currently work as a housing case manager for homeless veterans. I work in tandem with the VA and community partners trying to find stable housing for at-risk and homeless vets. I am also using the GI-Bill to attend school full-time, and am working towards a degree in Aeronautics with a focus on aviation maintenance.

 

[tehschkott]

Rocket Scientist

 

[Sheepdog]

Retired cop. Retired by an injury in the line of duty...

 

[McLeadslinger]

I retired from the Air Force in 2015 after 20 years. I now work as an F-15E Strike Eagle electrician for Boeing. Love my job.

 

[OFC Ranger]

I provide free rides to the gray bar motel for children disguised as adults.

 

[AzScorpion]

Might want to add it to this thread.


https://www.ranger5g.com/forum/threads/job-what-do-you-do.5178/

 

[McLeadslinger]

Might want to add it to this thread.


https://www.ranger5g.com/forum/threads/job-what-do-you-do.5178/

oops. Lol.

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