Thursday, August 26, 2010

Smoker's Destination #1

77 year old female smoker...
admitted to hospital with chest pain, shortness of breath, and rapid heart beat

says she "can barely get around because she can't breathe"

general findings are a large pleural effusion (fluid around lungs), mass on right lung

echocardiogram findings (cardiac ultrasound) are enlarged right sided heart from vasoconstriction in lungs. Lung pressures are now effecting ablility of the heart to pump blood.

... one good example of why to quit.

Friday, August 6, 2010

Max's 1st Birthday 7/28/10

These are the photos from my camera, but the really good pictures (I came to discover near the end of my uploading these) are the photos grandpa took. I will get those up ASAP... Wow, good memories to cherish. I put them in backward, so the party ends then begins.