Monday, September 9, 2013

Alas, it's been a exciting month...

I got my ear done. My sister took me as she didn't think my car would make it down to Harbor UCLA, and I think she is right. They took off my skin cancer and then did a skin graft and recreated the rim of my ear, (you are getting the abbreviated version since Blogger ate the really long draft). Ear looks pretty good now.

I am a trash hoarder. I decided to change my ways. I started picking stuff up off of the floor of my bedroom, which has not been cleaned in five years. I filled up the trash guy. Floor still not cleared. Four hours later start coughing, spitting and gasping for breath. All night long. It finally starts slowing down around 6 A.M. I have been coughing non stop for 11 hours.   I sleep for an hour and a half and go to the urgent care.

My oxygen blood level is 91. I get a breathing treatment, steroids,  antihistamines, antibiotics and an inhaler. I order a toxic dust  mask off Amazon. The day it comes I work on bedroom again. I fill up the trash guy AGAIN! Floor still not cleared. I take dust mask off. I forget there will be dust in air. I don't cough but start having trouble breathing. At work it's so bad, that at the close my supervisor sends me home and does my work. Very nice man.

Next day, doctor's appointment. Oxygen level 91 again. Doctor give me an EKG. Abnormal. Next stop, ER by ambulance and paramedic's.Blood work, Chest X-Rays and four more EKG's. Everything is fine. Doctor says my breathing problems are on the "Spectrum of asthma, but not chronic." Four steroids pills at once and I am released.

I'm to get a stress test and perhaps a cardiogram. What will this cost me? I'm hoping Healthy Way La will pick up everything since I was send there by the doctor. Waiting for the bill.

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