Shannon's Journal, Volume 3

[Shannon]

So far have not been fit to work since the accident. I putter around with experimentals in the mean time, but it's really inconsequential because I cannot do the parts of the job that matter until I return to being fit to work. Hopefully today I will get that response. Still not sure what o build next as a result, since this unfitness to work results in me being unable to get stable repeatable answers from the predictive models. I am very much over this whatever it is holding me back.

My run of OPH has been interesting. I am seeing progress, and I am seeing very ironic backsliding at the same time. It is causing my lungs to be less sensitive and reactive to things, but this puts me in the odd position of producing enough phlegm to cause me to cough, without it being enough for me to expectorate. So I'm actually coughing more as my lungs get better. The second day off in the end of the first usage cycle, I saw a big difference in how my lungs were doing. It's been difficult to get to sleep the last few days because of this coughing. It takes me at least 20 minutes to get the phlegm out of my lungs when I lay down, which keeps GF awake or wakes her up repeatedly. She says it's an hour, but I think it's closer to 20-30 minutes. Still not fun for either of us. Even Nyquil doesn't help much, which implies that part of my issue has to do with this being at leas a partly self inflicted condition. Some part of me is trying to use this cough and my lung health to prevent something else from happening by limiting me. I also note that there seems to be a tidal effect to using this program; some days I am almost free of my cough; other days I cough like crazy during the day. This effect seems to be calming down, but it's definitely as if something is pushing back on the progress the program is making. The amount of progress I have seen from OPH in one usage cycle is better than anything else I have ever tried or built to help my lungs, though, which makes me very happy.