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And then, something went wrong...




ICU wasn't all about pneumonia though.  It was about a week of coma with visual and auditory periods of human-seeming females encouraging me to just hang in there and assuring me that I was getting better.  I now recognize my wife and her sister as the chatterboxes and I believe I have several memories of my children pretty much saying the same stuff from time to time.  Being in a state of coma I hadn't the foggiest notion of any problem nor of anything else in the universe, except for one subject that I might talk about at a future time.  Oh yeah, during one of the CAT scans to determine how well my lungs were clearing representatives of the medical profession discovered I had lung cancer.  Many scans and several biopsies later they determined my right lung to have a large, malignant devil about 5 cm. in diameter, with two smaller imps in my left lung. 

The only suitable treatment is Chemo or chanting into my navel.  We begin Chemo the middle of March as my chanting voice is not improved by navel resonances.

By the way, I lost 30 pounds during my 10 day ICU visit!  Chemo promises to continue this weight loss program as well as reducing my hair grooming costs to a mere pittance.  Is that a deal or what?

Interesting thing about the chemo.  Two drugs are being used each treatment to reduce chance of tumor resistance.  Second chemo is around April Fool's Day.

I got this sweet little Pulse Oximeter in today.  Made in Israel, the SPO-5500 is about the least expensive and newest model available.  Seems to work okay but I'm gonna compare it with some of the pricey ones at whichever medical facility I next visit.  These things would be handy for pilots and athletes as well as those of us with breathing difficulties.


Appearing below are some short-term links to some things you need not see.

The following is almost 4MB.  Device Codes

The following is almost 18MB.  Users Manual