Well, today I have completed a chest x-ray with fluoroscopy plus some more respiratory studies. And there is some data to report. My left diaphragm is not doing its job. The fluoroscopy shows that it is being dragged up some--incompletely--by the right one which is fully functional. This validates restrictive lung disease as the nominal cause of my breathing problems. The doc who examined the pix suggested any number of causes: injury, neurological and yada yada. Since D Drachler hasn't seen this yet I don't have any idea what can be done. I suspect very little.
We also repeated the respirometry I had done in Logan with a couple more tests added on. The good news here was the reliability of the IHC results. In general terms I am at low to mid 40%s in terms of capacity. And I get a 10-12% boost from an albuterol inhaler should I need it. These figures almost identically concur with those I produced in Logan in November. Therefore, there is no deterioration in function from then until now. Hey, hey!
The additional tests had to do with the efficiency of O2 transfer from air to lungs and I don't yet have those results.
Now awaiting a pow wow with DD to see what, if anything, is next.
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