Showing posts with label 2008 hospitalization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2008 hospitalization. Show all posts

Monday, June 30, 2014

Episode 39: Big Clue for Mary Dell, MD (Medical Detective): Suffocating Again - or, Rather, Drowning

Air. Precious, sacred air.

My previous episode on this invisible but all-present substance in which we are all immersed, and upon which we all depend, is Episode 25: Down the Rabbit Hole and Suffocating.

Sadly, my body's lack of air continues, which is why I'm revisiting the topic. It's been a rough weekend.

I was so happy to have the artist's permission to include his image of Sacred Wind--nothing I've seen captures my current feelings about air quite so well:

Thanks so much to Douglas A. Sirois for permission to use this beautiful image, one that captures my feeling about the sacredness of air, especially given my increasing lack of the element in which we are immersed and dead without! The artist has many spiritual and fantasy illustrations I love!
www.dougsirois.com
douglas.sirois@verizon.net
http://dsiroisillustration.blogspot.com/
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4223178/
Be prepared if you choose to stay with this Episode: There's a lot of yucky stuff here. That's what happens when one discusses his or her illness: there's lots of yucky stuff. But if we're going to be real, we have to be real, so on we go.

For over a year now I've suspected that my blood and, hence, my organs and tissues, have been under-oxygenated. This can be referred to as hypoxia (lack of oxygen in the body's tissues, usually due to hypoxemia, lack of oxygen in the blood), or oxygen desaturation.