Uncle Robbie Rotten

Uncle Brett came over this weekend with Aunt Katie and Laurel. Neve tantrummed for about 45 minutes until she warmed up and then was back to her deceptively angelic self. The kids had fun and Laurel is such a doll. I wish we lived closer as those two would be such good playmates in the future...

HBOT is still going great. Dives 5, 6, & 7 went off without a hitch. We are up to 5 LPM for the oxygen during a 1 1/2 hr dive. Nothing positve to report. Nothing negative to report. BUT today was my dive with Nate and he was wound UP! He was crawling all over me nonstop and was trying to stand up and jump like he was on a trampoline. GOD! I thought he was gonna rock us right across the room! Crazy kid. :)

Adventures in HBOT - dives 3 & 4

Dives 3 and 4 went off without a hitch. Dive 3 was for 1 hour and 15 minutes, full pressure, no oxygen. No changes noted, positive or negative. Dive 4 was for 1 1/2 hours, full pressure with oxygen at 2.5 LPM distributed through a pass through in the side of the HBOT chamber.

We are now at our maximun length dive time..and we will be gradually increasing the pass through oxygen from 2.5 up to 10 LPM. Then the oxygen will be decreased and filtered through a mask directly to Nate's face...and then we will try and get him back up to 10LPM if his body can handle that. Lordy, after typing that it seems that we have a long way to go! ONWARD!

Thanks to everyone for their good wishes and overall  interest and support while we try out our rocket ship!

Adventures in HBOT...dives 1 & 2

Dive one was on Tuesday. 45 minutes of full pressure, no oxygen. Nate did great. He was super excited to get in it and acted liek he was playing in a tent. He gets to have a binky to help with his ears (sucking) and he is allowed to bring in his dvd player to watch Backyardigans and Wiggles. Aaron did ok too and was able to handle the ear pressure fairly well.

Dive 2 was on Wednesday. 1 hour of full pressure, no oxygen. Once again, Nate did great. He is really eager to get in his rocket ship which makes it SO much easier than the battle we had envisioned. Nate held his ears and put his head down a few times on the way "up", but after that seemed fine. I went in this time with him and had no problems except my ears kept popping all night (which is extremely annoying).

Overall, dives one and two a success. Tolerance was perfect . No positive side effects, but no negative side effects either. We'll take it. :) Looking forward to today's dive....

Our ROCKET SHIP has arrived!!!

This is our HBOT chamber! woo-hoo! We finally have it at home thanks to some Christmas help from Nate's grandparents.(and yes, I decorated it for the Holiday :) We are so excited and we start the actual sessions/dives tomorrow and work our way up by increasing pressure, duration, and oxygen flow. We are really excited and hopeful! Cross your fingers for Nateman!

You can also read up on HBOT here:

http://www.hypertc.com/

..and watch video about it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPQrDcS1fdY

..and here!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6RI0N9Gwro&feature=player_embedded

More videos from Nate's preschool Holiday Sing-a-Long. :)

Fa-Ra-Ra-Ra-RA!