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Thanks very much, Kathy!

*HUGS*

And thanks very much to you and Lauren for tonight's Road Trip to Maxwell-Gunter AFB, Alabama!

I spent three hours this morning in the Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital. At the end of process, the eminent physician examining me opined that I did not have pulmonary hypertension. He is of the opinion that my shortness of breath is primarily a result of my obesity.

He did order a substantial amount of blood work, which I had drawn there, and a ventilation perfusion scan - a nuclear medicine study, that I need to schedule. He also ordered a follow up sleep study for CPAP titration.

I finally hit the office this afternoon at 1:00 pm and was informed that, after curtailing our hours last Friday, the Powers That Be decided over the weekend to increase our hours to 60/wk, to be worked anytime between 6:00 a.m. and Midnight. I worked until 9:00 p.m. tonight - cancelled my PT on the basis I was not up to it physically.

Over the weekend, I was in a very weak state and did not even go to Mass yesterday. I feel somewhat better today, but still not up to snuff.

Not a lot of answers today, but at least I appear not to be in danger of immediate death. BP, lipids and cardiac all look good. We soldier on!

Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)