Good Doctor's Visit

Ocala, Florida

Weather: low 76 degrees, high 100 degrees, mostly clear skies

Summer has set in with a vengeance, as the temperature reached 100 degrees today. Happily, there are only about four months to go before it begins to cool off!

Another doctor's visit was taken care of today, as I saw the pulmonary specialist who helped treat me for pneumonia a few weeks ago. He did a good examination of me, and said my lungs sounded clear. The next question to be answered now is whether I had asthma or not. I was diagnosed as having asthma back in May while seeing my family doctor in Texas, and started being treated for that. There's only one thing that was wrong with the treatment: the medicine never seemed to relieve the symptoms, and I was feeling worse all the time. Everything came to a head when I finally got so sick here in Ocala that I had to be admitted to the hospital. That's when the pneumonia was found.

So, what happens now is that I will have more tests performed in August that should tell us whether I ever had asthma or not. Obviously, I hope that I don't have asthma. If we find that I was misdiagnosed with asthma when I actually had pneumonia, I will be disappointed that the doctor that I had used for more than five years made that kind of mistake. But, I'm happy that if I was going to get as sick as I did, that it happened in Ocala. My medical care here has been very good, and I'm feeling much better.

The next thing I need to decide when all the medical stuff here is finished is whether I'll be changing primary care doctors. That's going to be a tough decision because I like the doctor in Texas, but as I said, I'm disappointed that he didn't catch the pneumonia.

After leaving the doctor's office, we went to Carolyn's mother's house and visited for a couple of hours. Then it was on to home and try to stay cool for the rest of the day. Only about 120 days to go before cooler weather. I can hardly wait.

More later, be safe.

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