Re: not quite o-t: diesel poisoning horror

You use a screen reader? I missed something. I know you don't Sue. For that person, I use a screen reader called windoweyes.

On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, Sue wrote:

On Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:49:37 +0100 (BST), sum1@xxxxxxxxxx (Ian) wrote:


I was doing just great in the health department up to last Friday, when
a guy was taking me in his car to his shop for tuition on the PC.
(I don't need the tuition he usually supplies, i.e. for beginners but I
do need to be shown how to use the Windows screens, using a screen
reader that can deal with Windows. My screen reader is so antiquated it
does not know Windows and switches itself off if Windows is run.)
So, on the way there, he gets stuck behind a truck and its diesel
exhaust fumes are sucked in by the car's air conditioning and directed
straight into my face.
Within a couple of hours my throat and chest were giving me hell, anbd
it worsened each day. Wednesday afternoon , two guys from my bank,
Frost's Bank, came here by appointment to set up some new arrangement
I am going into. Alarmed at my breathing problems, they ran me to the
hospital and a chest x ray was done; it turned out to be clear, and the
stethoscope told the doctor my chest sounded good. But he prescribed
The oxygen level in the blood was only 93, a bit low.
two medicines, which seemed to contradict this, and said something about
inflammation which didn't show on the x ray.
Today, I was coughing up a little bit of stuff but the feeling of
tightness is still there, and talking on the phone for more than a few
minutes makes the throat feel like sandpaper.
So I've not been doing much on the computer for a week or so, and not
been up to keeping up with all the posts in here.
However I did read enough threads to remind me that my little troubles
fade into insignificance beside some in here.

No, you had quite an ordeal. Nothing insignificant in that. Take it
easy and rest up. You're missed around here.
Do you prefer top posting as Dana does? Is that easier for you?
Sue

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