1. Meeting with Internist on Cinqo de Mayo: I am in fine shape for my age, except for everything that is wrong with me. I learned a few new things. First, I have no ankle reflexes in either ankle; second, he cannot hear the lower lobes of my lungs filling (because they aren't!). Validation of a couple items on my list (see prior post summary). Lisonoprill is probably contraindicated since it may increase the frequency of pre-syncopal events. So the bp will get no help at this time of a pharma nature. Thanks, and see you in three months.
2. Mother's Day Weekend: Per usual, we headed to Jackson Hole WY for our traditional Mother's Day at Signal Mountain Lodge. Everything went as planned for a while. I drove the 3+ hours uneventfully. We had a marvelous dinner in town--lamb racks at The Blue Lion and headed to Signal (7k ft above sea level). In our room we went to bed and I couldn't get enough O2 to get to sleep. I labored at it from 10 pm until 2 am when I thought I would go crazy. My body would repeatedly sink into sleep only to immediately jerk me awake while I gasped for more air. I was unsteady on my feet. Surprisingly, this wasn't a problem walking the short distances to get from restaurant to car and to unpack at the Lodge. We packed up and were on the road back to Logan within the hour. There, sleeping was cake and we all imbibed for most of the morning and again in the afternoon. And, happy to report, last night was perfect: sleep from roughly 10-2, a short whiz, and sleep from 2-6.
Big lesson for me here: If I am to continue unfettered vacation activities that involve high elevations I am going to have to get some supplemental O2 and see if that helps. Otherwise, it's vacations at the seaside!
Happy Mother's Day to you all!
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