Right now lil Brodie is curled up on the sofa next to me along with the new addition to the house, my oxygen tubing. This is a first for me. After a short jaunt in the hospital around the elevators with my nurse pushing a pulse-ox machine (measures the level of oxygen saturation in my blood) we found my oxygen levels drop even with just a little exercise. Knowing that, we figure my oxygen levels most likely drop during sleep when my breathing is more relaxed and shallow. So this means I now have an oxygen condenser, along with 50 ft of tubing to get tangled in, in my little home. For times I will be exercising outside the house, I have some small bottles to take with me.

It sucks that I am now to the point of needing to use extra oxygen. It is always a little difficult to accept the changes my CF forces upon my life. Although I am, as always, very thankful for the technology that lets it happen.

I really have no recollection of how I ran across this company. But somehow I found Hoopnotica an awesome hoopdancing company who designs the most beautiful exercise hula hoops and instructional videos!

I counted my pennies and found I had just enough to buy a travel hoop (it breaks down into pieces for easier transport) and the beginner video. It just arrived in the mail and it is oh sooo much fun! The hoop is slightly weighted compared to the kind you find in the toy store. A stripe of thin pink padding and a stripe of gold metallic. Oh so pretty! Super easy to put together and take apart for travel or storage. I have not watched the video yet, but just twirling around with that hoop brought back some seriously good memories. I couldn’t help but giggle at poor little Brodie (my puppy). He hid behind the sofa afraid that the UFO looking thingy would fly off of mom’s hips. Good thing though, he knows how accident prone I have been recently!

I’ll post a review of the video as soon as I get a moment to watch it.