Newbie here. Practical solutions needed re the use of O2

[ScouseTaffy]

Hi all,

I use elbow crutches and have my 83 year old arthritic and memory impaired mum living with me. We're taking bets on who is the first to fall!

None of the doors close. The tubing jumps out and loops round me. The tubing is always obstructing somewhere.

Anyone managed to tame their tubing?

[stone-UK]

Hi

Ask your provider can they pipe the around your home.

Wearing your cannula, place the cannula over your head, turn so tubing is at your back, fit cannula and tighten toggle behind your head.

youtu.be/1d1Hj7uuQ0Y(Not working as expected?)

[ScouseTaffy in reply to stone-UK]

Thanks stone-UK,

Done that and safer already.

[Caspiana]

Hello ScouseTaffy .

Stone has given you some great advice. I just wanted to say hello and welcome. It's do lovely to have you here.

Warm wishes,

Cas xx 🌞🐳

[Hidden]

Welcome, ScouseTaffy. With a name like that you must surely be a Liverpudlian living in Wales? I'd like to put a fiver on the elbow crutches and tubing, please.

[ScouseTaffy in reply to Hidden]

Sorry Don-Rhymer it's the other way round. Welsh family in Liverpool for 6 years and then returned to Welsh Wales.

However I could represent either countryour, some choice?

[Hidden in reply to ScouseTaffy]

I commuted to Liverpool for most of my working life and now spend a lot of my leisure time touring North Wales, hence my interest.

[ScouseTaffy in reply to Hidden]

I would choose to live in Barmouth if ever anyone wants to buy me a house

[Hidden in reply to ScouseTaffy]

Llandanwg is my second home. 🚐

[mskpjb]

Nope I haven't managed to tame mine even though I talk to it regularly ! I do try to be polite but I'm afraid my language leaves a lot to be desired when I'm communing with my oxygen cannula. I'm actually amazed I still have a nose the number of times I'm dragged back because it's caught on a knob somewhere. Tread very carefully ScouseTaffy ! Sheila xx

[BevMG74 in reply to mskpjb]

I talk to mine too. Not always politely. It hasn't answered me back yet, but a yank at the nostrils certainly pulls me up pretty quickly. Cheers, BevM

[ScouseTaffy]

I may try the opposite and cuss at it.

[Hacienda]

Hi Fellow Scouse/Welsh Taffy, Welcome to The family. If Stone gives advise, it is 100%. I too have extra long Tubing and have done the Ankle Bit falling over. I use my Mobile Concentrator to get around in the Kitchen and outside. Time & Experience will have you Leaping about........ha ha . Love n Hugs . Carolina XXX

[ScouseTaffy in reply to Hacienda]

So is stone the one they mean when they say " I know a man who can"?always good to know that mano (or woman.

Does your mobile concentrator not trail the electric lead?

My umbilical cord is just shy of me being able to reach the window in the front and certainly stops me from sitting in the back garden in my arbor. If I didn't know better Id think they're out to get me.

[Hacienda in reply to ScouseTaffy]

Ha Ha, Hi Hun, I have the Inogen 1 Concentrator, see in Stones comments. It is powered by Battery, which is charged either in home or in the car, Lasts about 4 hours. great for garden, Shopping, Pub...... At Home(Bungalow), I'm all Plumbed in with enough Tubing to travel each Room, You learn the knack of throwing it over your shoulder(Tube)...Ha ha, A song there. My Supplier is Air Liquide, Via Referral through PR Nurse. Good Luck Taf. XXX Hope your Mum is Ok. xxx

[Hacienda]

Oh. also nearly pulled my head off a few times on Door handles...Ha Ha xxxx

[ScouseTaffy]

Any tips for dry nose & lips on bipap?

Humidifier runs out over night.