Greetings from Mountain View Hospital, Observation Unit, Room 2, in Las Vegas. <\/p>\n
Mary drove me to the emergency room yesterday, and I was admitted pretty much immediately. My oxygen saturation percentage was in the 70s. (Ninety and above is considered normal.) It had reached the point that walking across a room was leaving me winded.<\/p>\n
It’s pneumonia.<\/p>\n
So now I’m on IV antibiotics, IV steroids, 10 liters of oxygen per minute, a hurricane-force bi-PAP machine at night — and a beautiful laptop afflicted with Windows Vista. There’s pain, and then there’s pain.<\/p>\n
They expect I’ll be in here through the weekend. I’m in an accepting mood. If it takes that long to get me functional again, fine. In the meantime, maybe I can actually get caught up on Doctor Fate and that Omnibus introduction. (I know, I know — my health comes first, but my spirits improved mightily when I got my hands on this machine this afternoon.)<\/p>\n
I’ll keep you informed as my recuperation progresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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