©️2020 Basil René. All Rights Reserved Images©️Basil René or Sourced From Mematic &/or Giphy Who Holds ©️Info For All Photographs In Thier Application Basil René was diagnosed with pulmonary sarcoidosis in 2006 and cardiac sarcoidosis in 2007. As a result of sarcoidosis, Basil René has heart failure and lives with an implanted AICD.
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Learning About Yourself Is Not Only About Your Emotions
There is a school of thought that we all come to this planet with a preplan of the challenges we will face so that we can learn various lessons. Apparently, when I was leaving the soul bank for earth, there was a breakfast meeting at which I was asked what challenges I want in this…
Second Look Sunday: Traveling And Diuretics
Originally posted January 23, 2014 It is amazing how you need to plan your life when you have chronic conditions. Simple things like a road trip become an event. I need to figure out if I need to walk with my portable liquid oxygen or my concentrator. How many days of medication I need. If…
Second Look Sunday: I Need To Stay In Bed On A Sarcoidosis Day
Originally posted January 12, 2014 Everyone with a chronic condition or conditions has had a day, or days where they just are not feeling “right”. I don’t mean the pain or usual symptoms that come with the condition, but a day when you are just not in balance, where your coordination is off, your brain…
Second Look Sunday: Screw The Flu Shot
Originally published Jan 2014 It’s the beginning of January fall and for the first time since being diagnosed with sarcoidosis in 2006, I have not gotten the flu. I never had the flu before getting Sarcoidosis, but my doctors, especially after getting sarcoidosis in the heart and the resulting heart failure, all convinced me to…
Wednesday’s Words Of Wisdom: Sarcoidosis Explained
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Coronavirus Might Attack the Brain, Too – Elemental
Early analyses of Covid-19 patients in January told of the most common symptoms: fever, cough, and difficulty breathing. More diagnosed cases and research revealed less common symptoms, such as neurological ones. — Read on elemental.medium.com/coronavirus-might-attack-the-brain-too-21ea92a39c04
Plaquenil, Used For Sarcoidosis Is Unproven And Risky In The Treatment Of COVID-19
Trump and experts are in disagreement about the use of plaquenil (hydroxychloroquine) as an effective treatment for COVID-19. Experts warn about taking the drug preemptively due to it’s dangerous side effects especially as it has not been proven effective as yet. Read on at https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/03/19/coronavirus-chloroquine-can-have-deadly-side-effects/2882242001/
8 Things People Diagnosed With Coronavirus Want You To Know | HuffPost Life
People with COVID-19 share what they’ve learned from dealing with the virus over the last few weeks. — Read on http://www.huffpost.com/entry/living-with-coronavirus-diagnosed_l_5e77a00dc5b62f90bc4c9f3a
Xeljanz (Tofacitinib) Might Be Successful In Treating Sarcoidosis – Sarcoidosis News
Xeljanz is a partial inhibitor of the JAK enzyme that has been used off-label for the treatment of sarcoidosis and is being studied in clinical trials. — Read on sarcoidosisnews.com/xeljanz-tofacitinib/
New advances in the management of pulmonary sarcoidosis | The BMJ
New advances in the management of pulmonary sarcoidosis | The BMJ This is a bit of a dry read. Very medical journal, but it’s informative. — Read on http://www.bmj.com/content/367/bmj.l5553
Could My Love Really Be Turning Against Me?!
I remember too well the day we met, almost thirteen years ago, a cool morning, the sun high in the cloudless New York City sky. We were introduced by, of all people, an Ayurvedic doctor that I had only met 30 minutes before. He said we would be good for each other. At first I was…
The Weekend Revisit Of: Did You Say I Don’t Look Like Arnold?
I have experienced quite of few changes with the development of sarcoidosis and the accompanying conditions of heart failure and pulmonary hypertension. I put on 30 pounds, a lot of my muscle definition has gone and now my doctor tells me I am starting to develop Gynecomastia. Yep, I am getting man boobs, and with the…
The Weekend Revisit of: “The Prednisone Demon Revisited”
I wrote about him before, singing my song of impatience with he that causes the impatience, being angry with he that causes the anger. Yes, my old nemesis, the Prednisone Demon. He has been in my life for six years now, sometimes being a strong influence and at times, just sitting in the background, waiting….