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joevol33 said:
Girls are about to get a break, and maybe get their minds off everything. It's been planned, one of my daughter's friends parents were taking the 4 bff's to Gatlinburg after the swim meet this weekend. It's wgat all of us parents were doing for tgeir birthday, cause all 4 are within about 3 weeks of each other. They're going skiing, and celebrating. The mom asked if little bit could go, and even came by and picked the girls up today to go buy her snow pants. Middle daughter already had her stuff, and I took them to get gloves and stuff. Hopefully they have a safe, fun trip, and mom is home when they get back.
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What a wonderful idea! God bless friends.
 
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joevol33 said:
@VolNExile , one more question that's always concerned me. Has flying ever bothered yoyr asthma? Sorry, I'm just nervous about everything thinking about it. I do appreciate you, @NorCalVol67 , and @3rdDegreeVol taking time to answer.
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No, not at all, not while on the flight. They do pump in fresh air, although the cabin altitude will be higher than you're used to.

The only vague health problems I've had when flying were catching colds, and those were on long flights (think Honolulu - Baltimore nonstop) and in pre-mask days. I wouldn't think you'd have any problems, but keep your inhaler handy and make sure you've taken whatever meds you're on beforehand. The big thing is keeping hydrated. You'll dry out fast at altitude, so have a big ole water bottle handy and hit it frequently.

(The cabin air pressure is much, much higher than the outside air pressure when you're at cruising altitude, but it's still lower and drier than when you're on the ground.)
 
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VolNExile said:
No, not at all, not while on the flight. They do pump in fresh air, although the cabin altitude will be higher than you're used to.

The only vague health problems I've had when flying were catching colds, and those were on long flights (think Honolulu - Baltimore nonstop) and in pre-mask days. I wouldn't think you'd have any problems, but keep your inhaler handy and make sure you've taken whatever meds you're on beforehand. The big thing is keeping hydrated. You'll dry out fast at altitude, so have a big ole water bottle handy and hit it frequently.

(The cabin air pressure is much, much higher than the outside air pressure when you're at cruising altitude, but it's still lower and drier than when you're on the ground.)
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Cool, thank you.
 
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tnuhcvols said:
You will be so distracted by looking at the world from 20000 ft you won't notice the time. Take off and landings are gonna raise your heart rate
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Good point. There are bound to be some YouTube vids of flights, takeoffs and landings, that explain the noises that you'll hear and the bumps that you'll feel. For instance, landing gear: after takeoff, about when you reach the end of the runway, you'll feel some thunk-thunks and hear some gear whining. Same thing on approach (getting ready to land.) That's the landing gear (wheels) going up on take-off and down on landing. Find a video that shows what the wings do. You'll see slats and flats moving around to slow the airspeed (movement of the plane through the air) and ailerons lifting and dropping (helping the plane tilt to the left and right, which helps it turn left and right.)

Really, for someone like you with such a strong mechanical background, airplanes are amazing critters, and learning how they move - climbing, descending, turning, speeding up, slowing down - is fascinating, because it's all done through mechanical means. Now that I think of it, with training, you'd be one hell of an A&P (airframe and powerplant) mechanic. These guys have a genius intuition for how airplanes work and what to do to fix them.

Anyway, all though you'll probably be a bit frazzled (understandable), I believe that you two will be fine, and in the end, it will be much less exhausting for Tiffany.
 
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joevol33 said:
@VolNExile , one more question that's always concerned me. Has flying ever bothered yoyr asthma? Sorry, I'm just nervous about everything thinking about it. I do appreciate you, @NorCalVol67 , and @3rdDegreeVol taking time to answer.
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I agree with @VolNExile, the air will be clean but dry. Typically the air in an airliner is changed out every 10 minutes or so but it's warmed external air which is very dry at altitude. Drink plenty of water.
 
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NorCalVol67 said:
Should have said when I lived in SF and would go to SoCal.
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Oh ok, now I understand.

Edit to add: that drive down I-5 was reeeeally long. Cali is long and skinny north and south the way that Tennessee is long and skinny East and west, but moreso. It’s a long drive from SF to LA, and then just when you’re almost there, you hit the Grapevine. I wish we had tried the train, but oh well. Once you get there, you have to have a car in LA, or you’re pretty much dead meat.
 
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We used to drive from San Diego to our place on the Olympic Peninsula every summer. I think we would start on I-5 at about exit number 30-something. Note the exit number on the last exit in CA. Yikes, that was a loooooooooong drive.
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Danl said:
We used to drive from San Diego to our place on the Olympic Peninsula every summer. I think we would start on I-5 at about exit number 30-something. Note the exit number on the last exit in CA. Yikes, that was a loooooooooong drive.
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No one gets how long California is until you do a border-to-border trip. Lol, but it’s beautiful though!

The San Francisco VA territory included all the way up to Eureka. Fortunately for us, the very top of the state was assigned to Roseburg VA in Oregon, but wowsers, those trips up to Ukiah and Eureka and Clearlake were brutal. But so dang lovely, to drive up through the redwood groves and the open, rolling ocean-bottom hills.
 
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joevol33 said:
If at all possible, I'd rather go to Greenville. With traffic, it's about the same distance from home, but no atlanta to deal with.
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Do you let that attorney know when something like this comes up?

There are also private organizations that fly patients to and from for different reasons. Before you buy tickets, you might make sure there isn't someone out there that wants to offer help. (Little guy at church was born with club feet, and there's a group that flys them from Chattanooga to St. Louis for his doctor appts.) You never know.
 
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