From: "Madeleine Yeh" <myeh at wap.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] Health news update, things are getting better
 ...
To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com, "WSFA members"
 <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 07:01:38 -0400

    Its good to have an answer.    I'm glad this is
something reasonably well understood and treatable.    Do
you plan to have surgery to treat this?

    Madeleine

On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 23:57:06 -0400
  "Michael Walsh walshmichaelj at gmail.com [wsfa-forum]"
<wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> So, last week I had a CT of the chest. And the results
>are in ....
>
> .... mild atelectasis.
>
> "Atelectasis (at-uh-LEK-tuh-sis) is a complete or
>partial collapse of
> the entire lung or area (lobe) of the lung."
> https://www.mayoclinic.org/.../symptoms-causes/syc-20369684
>
> But wait! There's more! There's a large hiatal hernia.
>
>For now I have an inhaler - Breo - with a 14 day supply.
> Which has
> made a positive difference in breathing
>
> At least I'm not a candidate for "Annals of Medicine" in
>The New Yorker.
>
> Thank goodness for Medicare and the supplemental
>insurance.
>
> Michael
>
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