That looks like a breathing device you get discharged from a hospital stay with. It has 3 balls in it that you have to raise to the top. I don’t know what it’s official name is.
Incentive spirometer, but the three-ball kind is the expensive, old-school kind. The ones the hospital hands out like candy have a plunger instead.
I think it is a peak flow, but what RTC is talking about is a Spirometer.
It's not a good sign. Whenever one of those fuckers would show up in an elderly relative's house, the end was nigh. As a kid I thought of them as a morbid offshoot of connect four.
It's not a peak flow meter; those are always rigid, no flexible tube.
Having an incentive spirometer around could also mean you were inpatient for a surgical procedure, or anything that took you off your feet for a while. Anyone in bed is at risk for atelectasis, it's just that surgeons tend to use order sets, so there'll automatically be a box checked for "education on incentive spirometer" and "encourage IS use q hour while awake."
I don't doubt that Jack would take everything he possibly could home from the hospital, but it's very un-Jacklike to keep an IS handy on his desk, and
use it enough to get the mouthpiece disgusting. That sounds like active participation in your own healthcare, and
that's for people who aren't planning to get healed by Jesus.
Could this be the first visible sign of a secret SLP arc? Jack didn't care about his ambulation or his dominant hand enough to persevere with physical therapy, but eating is Jack's
passion. Maybe he's seeing a speech therapist on the down-low, and really doing the home exercises for once.