Today I am going to teach you some numbers that have to do with Asthma. Yesterday, before the doctor sent me over here I had to have a breathing test at his office. It was done on a machine called a spirometer. Basically it measures the amount of air you can blow out.

The process you have to go through to have this machine take this measurement is not bad, it can just be a little tiring when you are having a difficult time breathing.

This is what the spirometer looks like.

Basically, when I saw the Doctor yesterday, my ability to exhale was half of what it was the last time I saw him. Which is a big change. It indicates some sort of blockage, which in my case is my airways constricting.

I am feeling some better today, however, still quite a bit of a ways to go before I am well enough to go home.  Just walking the few feet from my bed to the bathroom is horrible enough to make it so I have no breath left.  I had to get respiratory to come and give me an extra breathing treatment after my last bathroom trip

As far as the horrible nursing care I got yesterday afternoon, things are very much improved.