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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, of all things.   We’re all baffled.  Dan and I, my parents, and my