Hi Night Owls,
Every time BFSkinner disappears from Daily Kos, we all know he’s in the hospital. In the brief period he was home before his doctor commanded him to return to the hospital on Friday, BFSkinner read all your comments and watched the videos from the previous stories about his situation, and your thoughts and prayers cheered him immensely.
Sigh. This time, our amazing guy had a chronic obstructive pulmonary disease flareup with shortness of breath and dizziness and cough. The cough lingers, which is problematic. X-rays and CAT scans reveal nothing abnormal. However, the cough is dry and not bringing up anything, and so his lung doctor scheduled him to undergo a bronchoscopy on Friday 9/25.
Gross Medical Explanation Warning: To perform a bronchoscopy, the surgeon places a sterile 3-foot long quarter-inch-in-diameter flexible snake through a nostril and down into the lungs while watching on a monitor the video captured by a tiny lens at the far end of the snake. Salt-water rinses, suctioning, and taking small biopsies are optional. End of cool surgical stuff.
If I can get over to see him at the hospital, I will, and I will relay your messages of love by saving the story as an html document to my laptop.
Good night, see you in the morning.
2t
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