My Final Test...

Hi, so today I had my final pulmonary appointment. It SUCKED!!! It was a breathing test and I had to do it in some sort of a pulmonary chamber, which is basically a box that you sit in and can see out 360 degrees. I am still not sure why I had to sit in there to do the breathing test, but whatever! So the tests sucked!! I had to put a mouthpiece in that was connected to a breathing tube which was also connected to the techs computer. I had to breathe normally with nose plugs on and then she would make this thing close the tube off and I would basically not be able to breathe for 2 seconds. This was done to measure the amount of space and pressure in my lungs. Then I had to empty out my lungs completely (and she made me PUSH!), which was so hard because it felt like I didn't have anymore air. So after pushing everything out, I then had to take a deep breath in and then push it out really fast, again emptying the crap out of my lungs. I had to do that 6 times! Then, they gave me one of the asthma medications and made me do it again 4 more times as well as 2 more tests where I had to hold my breath. This was done to see if the asthma medicine had any affect on my lungs and surprisingly it did! She said I took in more air and I could even notice that I could breathe better too. So I don't know if that means I have asthma or not. I guess I will find out soon enough.

I hope Dr. Snyder's office calls me here very soon to schedule my surgery date. I am just stuck on October 3rd, so I really hope I get that.

Well, I will write more later on.