ALICE HAY

DOB: 08/06/1947

 

Drink only Pall-filtered water from kitchen.

 

Levothyroxine:  Take at 6:30 am.  Cannot take any other pill (eg Toporal, Reloxifene) for at least an hour afterward.
No vitamins/minerals for 4 hours.  (They will bind with Levothyroxine and make it ineffective.)

Eyes: Microwave eye mask for 60 seconds each morning. Wrap the mask in 4 folded paper towels and put it on eyes for 15-20 minutes, using fewer towels as it cools down. Then repeat. Blink eyes hard 5 times, and then use eye scrubs (Tea Tree from Amazon). Repeat all steps of mask process in the evening.

Use “Refresh” eyedrops (OTC) on bedroom bureau twice a day for dry eyes (both of them).

Sinus: Fill the plastic sinus wash bottle near the kitchen sink up to the line with DISTILLED water daily. Empty one blue-and-white capsule of Mometasone and one packet of dry saline (both in kitchen cabinet above countertop window) into the sinus wash bottle … shake… and heat in microwave for 20 seconds. At the sink, put one foot far forward and bend head face-down. Gently squirt up into each nostril at least twice, while saying “K” (so water will go into sinuses properly). Using Pall-filtered water, refill and squeeze bottle 2-3 times, then remove top, wipe it off with vinegar, shake both parts and dry them on cup rack behind sink. Each Wednesday sterilize plastic sinus bottle with solution of 1/3 distilled white vinegar and 2/3 Pall-filtered water; add cap and squirt solution up tube, then flush out tube with filtered water. Then separate top from bottle and rinse both with filtered water and dry on rack.

Each Friday, clean the plastic bottle: add 2-3 drops of Dawn detergent from above sink and fill it with filtered water up to line. Shake and squeeze until empty. Then separate bottle and top, rinse both with filtered water, and dry on rack, as above. (Plastic bottles last 3 months. Extra bottles in closet, including top drawer. (To order bottles, Mometasone, and saline, call Advanced RX: 844-511-4700)

 

Lungs: Every day, squirt one 3.5 percent saline tube (on nebulizer table) into the nebulizer mouthpiece. (Need Dr.’s Rx to order from Penn Pharmacy, 215-662-6260).  Use the nebulizer for 25 minutes, coughing up phlegm into a cup, as necessary. Then, leaving machine on for 5 more minutes to dry, disassemble the plastic nebulizer mouthpiece into 4 parts, put them into larger blue metal bowl (probably in dishwasher) and soak them in a solution of one tsp of dish detergent (Dawn preferred) topped off with Pall-filtered water. Once every two weeks, measure 1 ounce (2 TBS) of Control III (in kitchen cabinet to the left of sink) into an empty plastic jug with the next replacement date (two weeks hence) written on it; then add 2/3 gallon of Pall-filtered water from the sink and shake. At least twice a week, put the 4 plastic pieces of the disassembled nebulizer mouthpiece back into the larger blue metal bowl; then pour solution from the afore-mentioned plastic jug over the nebulizer pieces in the bowl and, after letting them soak for 25 minutes, thoroughly rinse the 4 pieces and the bowl with filtered water. (Note: Aerosolized water or dust in the air could carry NTM bacteria, so use only Pall-filtered water for anything regarding the lungs or food or drink. Likewise, avoid humidifiers/diffusers or anything that sprays droplets of unfiltered water into ambient air.) Every two months, replace nebulizer pieces with new ones from the drawer of the dining-room secretary. (Get them, included, when buying 3.5 percent saline solution, mentioned above, from Penn Medicine. Or order from Pari at 800-327-8632.)


Back:  Must do pelvic tilt 15 times daily for lower back tightness. Cat/cow also helps.

 

Osteoporosis: Take Reloxifene (Evista) per schedule. (For refills consult Dr. Del Judice.) Use vibrating platform regularly.

 

Laxatives: 2 Colon Max (Amazon) and 2 1/2 - 3 stool softeners daily, per schedule. Delcolax suppository, as needed.

 
Sleep: Take 1 1/2 Trazadone (Gitterman prescription) at 10:30 pm. This MUST be taken with a small amount of food to prevent dizziness and nausea.  At 11:00 pm take 2 Cortisol Manager (Amazon).

Pall filters for the kitchen sink and bedroom shower: Replace from dining-room bureau every two months on the first day of every even month. Order from Patty Schwartz (920-845-5810 x117). For filter questions: Pamela Jenkins (516-916-4225),

 

Bloodwork: Quest for simple bloodwork. Bloodwork for Penn (Bosso, immunity) can be scheduled at 267-414-2605.


Gut: Ginsburg pills can be ordered using Fullscript at 1-866-807-3828. Diet is gluten free with no pork or beef.

 

In addition, it is very important to follow schedule in “Alice Hay-Tolo’s Daily Meds & Supplements”.

 

 

Last update 2024-12-26