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Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

My dad was an Air Force pilot, then a captain for TWA and also did #planecrash investigations. I asked him if it’s hard to land at that airport. His reply: Yes, for lots of reasons Washington National is tough. It was a good 1936 DC-3 airport. I think the helicopter pilot & ATC are at fault.

Old photo of my dad as a young pilot in the Air Force in the cockpit. A young white man with dark brown hair wearing a headset in the cockpit of a plane, looking down. He’s wearing an Air Force flight suit.

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Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Love it! Thanks. I have a chihuahua mix rescue.

Black Chihuahua mix with white chest, stretched out on cushion on top of sofa in front of window

Black Chihuahua in a shopping cart at the pet food store

Selfie of a middle-aged white woman in a blue shirt holding a black Chihuahua

Black Chihuahua line on a fluffy dog bed . close-up of her face

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Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

4 years ago today I got “The Call” for NEW LUNGS! For 3 years I’d been on oxygen, 9 nebulizer meds a day, IV’s weeks at a time, coughed blood. Thanks to the generosity of a grieving family on their worst day, I’m able to breathe again. Organ donation saves lives! ♻️🫁 #transplant

Middle-aged white woman with long dark shoulder length hair with lots of grey, smiling into camera wearing a blue winter coat and blue pattern scarf sitting in a car. In the backseat, a black Chihuahua mix is standing up, looking out the window.

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Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Here goes my first ostomy picture. Did I think about hospice rather than a permanent ostomy? Yes, I did. Instead, I chose life & beat rectal cancer. You know what helped me? Tik Tok videos like this. Now, I want to inspire other ostomates to be positive too & reduce the stigma.

Selfie in mirror of living room with middle-aged white woman with shoulder length dark hair, wearing lipstick and smiling into camera. She is wearing a gray sweater camisole and it is cropped just above her ostomy bag. She is wearing black pants. Her left arm is raised and it has an IV in it and she is holding an IV ball.

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Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Sunday 4 pm. Time for another IV. This afternoon med usually flattens me and I have to go lie down. Home IV’s can be exhausting! #lungtransplant #cysticfibrosis

Middle-aged, white woman with dark hair that’s shoulder length, looking into camera with surprise, eyes wide and mouth open into a surprise smile holding an IV ball with her left hand while her dog sleeps in the background a black Chihuahua

Middle-age white woman with dark shoulder length hair and a black sweatshirt, smiling into camera, holding an IV ball with her left hand while her dog sleeps in the background a black Chihuahua

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Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Ha ha! Don’t get on Santa’s Naughty List.

Black Chihuahua dog lying on sofa before a window wearing a Santa hat

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Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Customer service at Chewy is THE BEST! They noticed my review of a dog chew that my dog didn’t like and gave me a refund! Try and name another company that would do that!! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #custserv

This is an email that says they are refunding $5.19 to my account because I gave a poor review of a dog toy that my dog didn’t like

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Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Home IV’s: I’m taking Zosyn to combat the pseudomonas that showed up in my bronch. It’s every 8 hours. Takes about an hour to infuse. Get them out of refrigerator an hour before. Flush the line, attach. No IV pole! They look like breast implants 🤣 #lungtransplant #cysticfibrosis

Black kitchen countertop with photo of pre-filled syringes, alcohol swabs and a round IV ball on countertop

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Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Home IV’s update: Home health care nurse comes once a week. Today she went over paperwork, consent forms and my meds. Now going to draw blood and put on my IV extension so I can hook up the IV’s myself. (Radiology never has the right size.) YES, SHE WORE A MASK! #lungtransplant

White covered dining room table with IV supplies laid out on table and blood lab tubes and sharps container, hand sanitizer and several pre-filled syringes

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Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

In my 20’s and 30’s, I found it very traumatic to have a bunch of nurses stabbing me over and over, trying and failing to get IV lines in. This procedure takes less than 30 minutes and minimizes the discomfort. #cysticfibrosis

Selfie of a middle-aged white woman with dark hair, wearing an oxygen cannula and left arm raised with PICC line in it

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Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

PICC: Choose arm for placement. They clean the area. Ultrasound gel. Examine veins. Shots for numbing (those hurt!) Run a guide wire up while X-ray machine shows where line ends (before ❤️). Place line. It feels weird! Check everything. Clean up. Stat lock or suture. Dressing.

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Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Getting a PICC line to take home IV antibiotics. X-rays for placement. Makes sure line doesn’t go into your heart. Photo taken with permission. #lungtransplant #cysticfibrosis

Photo in radiology operating room of equipment used to place a PICC line

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Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Just had my annual bronchoscopy. It’s nearly the 4th lungiversary of my double lung transplant ♻️🫁 for cystic fibrosis. @DukeHealth is the best! Also, this year I beat cancer! With an excellent surgeon at @AtriumHealth 🩷

Middle-aged white woman in hospital room in hospital gown that is blue with a pattern. She is wearing an N 95 mask that is white and a red gauze pre-surgery cap that patients wear. Her eye eyebrows are raised, and her eyes are wide open.

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Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

“Don’t be the Turks!” Just a light discussion about the fall of the Ottoman Empire in an independent coffee shop/bookstore in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. #gossip

Warm and inviting café inside a bookstore. Lots of little café tables with metal chairs and rows of bookshelves behind them. amber lighting.

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Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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Photo of a very lush green garden pathway of a very trimmed lawn edged by bricks and small trimmed hedges. Very inviting and lush.

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Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

If you have a dog with seizures, especially a smaller breed, please let me know what worked for you! My chihuahua mix rescue is 3 years old and has about 1-2 seizures a month. She’s on phenobarbital and levetiracetam (keppra) every 12 hours.

Black and white Chihuahua mix, dog, relaxing on a bed with white sheets and white pillowcase

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Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I adopted my first chihuahua mix this year! She’s 3.

Black chihuahua mix with white chest lying on white sheets and pillow.

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Cat @dizzycatdesign.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Great to see you here! You’ve been my state rep, my Congressman and soon AG. I’m about to get my 4th anniversary with my new lungs + beating cancer this year.

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