I feel mah-velous!
Dec. 14th, 2005 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpWhat woke me up yesterday at 2:30 pm was a call from my client, informing me that my 10 am appointment this morning to follow up on my physical last week had been pushed up by half an hour so that my breathing could be re-tested. Apparently, this was a reference to my spirometry test, which I felt I hadn't done too well on, in retrospect, because I was trying to throttle the air I was expelling so as to have something left to exhale for the rest of the cycle.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Spirometry measures the quality of your breathing and the method is pretty straightforward, if a bit uncomfortable. Your nostrils are pinched off with a clip and you breath through your mouth into a tube connected to the measurement apparatus. You're supposed to breathe three times normally, with the last breath taken deeply and exhaled slowly, followed by as rapid an intake as possible of a full breath and a just as rapid exhalation for as long as you can continue to exhale. This mild form of torture is repeated two more times, and I would suppose the results are averaged somehow.
In any event, during the post-examination session, the doc said I'd done well on the spirometry, checked my reflexes and pulse, gave me a new certificate stating that I'd passed the flight controller's physical (technically, an air traffic controller's physical, but that'd be getting picky), and told me to come back next year.
I think I'm going to go grab some lunch and celebrate.
Cheers...
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
Spirometry measures the quality of your breathing and the method is pretty straightforward, if a bit uncomfortable. Your nostrils are pinched off with a clip and you breath through your mouth into a tube connected to the measurement apparatus. You're supposed to breathe three times normally, with the last breath taken deeply and exhaled slowly, followed by as rapid an intake as possible of a full breath and a just as rapid exhalation for as long as you can continue to exhale. This mild form of torture is repeated two more times, and I would suppose the results are averaged somehow.
In any event, during the post-examination session, the doc said I'd done well on the spirometry, checked my reflexes and pulse, gave me a new certificate stating that I'd passed the flight controller's physical (technically, an air traffic controller's physical, but that'd be getting picky), and told me to come back next year.
I think I'm going to go grab some lunch and celebrate.
Cheers...
