>Was the hardest decision i ever had to make, and I
>fought it all the way. I was using my vent only every other night even
>though the doc really wanted me to use it every nite.
This sounds like how determindedly I fought using O2. I first started using
it about a month before my daughter was born. I didn't like it, but I used
it because I thought that it was just a temporary thing. When I woke up in
ICU after the C-section and discovered that I was still on O2, I felt very
upset. And when I went home with O2, I was furious! I DID NOT WANT TO USE
IT!!! And I didn't! I tried and tried to go without it. Finally my dr.
really put the question to me: did I want to stick around to see my daughter
reach age 15 or not? It was that simple. I finally gave in and did what I
had to do. I had to use it around the clock for about a year, and then I
used it only for sleeping. I still need O2 at night and a concentrator feeds
it into my vent. I'm grateful for it today.
Carol