9-6-2015 Health Update
I’m home! Can you believe it? Because I’m having a hard time believing it’s real and it could last. So much has happened in the last few days, I feel writing a giant update on my blog is the best way to update everyone. The general background: After I got a cold around the 4 th of July I was hospitalized for 3 weeks. I came home, not really better, and then got slowly sicker. I was home for 2 weeks, and then I ended up being taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital because my pulse ox was so low and my pulse was so high. I went home on oxygen. Less than a week after that, I was back at the hospital in Milwaukee and spent almost 2 weeks there. The more specific update and recent details: On Friday I did my PFTs. I was POSITIVE they were going to be at least a little better. On Tuesday my FEV1 was 34%, and on Friday I was hoping for at least a 39%. My reality was 30%. My FEV1 went down, o...