8/14/2007My personal Odyssey into the realm of the asthma monster continues. (Wow, sounds exciting!) So far destruction of the beast has proven imposssible. Controlling the brute is the best that can be hoped for but has  been difficult to achieve as well. My quest continues....Got your attention, huh? Oh well, back to earth. I went to see the asthma specialist at Washington University Lung Center yesterday. He's a nice guy and does seem to know his stuff. (I guess that's why he has the big office) He even had another doctor prescreen me before he came and spoke with me. (talk about a big shot!)However the most impressive person I met was the tech who gave me my pulmonary function test in the morning. Whenever I have to blow hard into that device, I start to cough. She encouraged me to continue to blow through the coughing. Nothing unusual there...they all do that. However she is the first one to ask me if I felt dizzy or like I was blacking out. I was stunned. I did feel like I was blacking out very briefly while testing. I always do. She is the first to notice and at the exact time it happened. I was impressed. I wondered ,since I didn't actually pass out, how did she know? No one else has ever noticed. She was good.All this testing took all day. But since everyone was very nice and very prompt it wasn't bad. At the lab they were so prompt that they called for me before the receptionist had finished copying my insurance card. I have never been anywhere that has been so "on time!".At the end of the day, I wound up with two more prescriptions, an action plan and another appointment. My journey continues...However my journal entry ends....at least for nowBe well,tom