TJ had his pulmonary lung function test yesterday. This test is done to find out how well your lung and airway works. It includes a: - Spirometry which measures how much air you can breathe out from your lungs and how quickly you can do it. - Lung plethysmography which measures how much air is in your lungs after you take a deep breath and how much air is left in your lungs after you breathe out as much as you can. - Lung diffusion test which measures how well the oxygen moves from your lungs into your blood. Tj needed to do this test again so it could be compared against his base line test that he did at the beginning of his cancer diagnosis. It also measures how his chemotherapy treatments and medicines may affect his lungs. We are unsure of the comparison results at this stage. These tests are suppose to be painless but TJ seemed to struggle through them again. :( Besides making TJ a bit breathless (which I think is normal?) he said he also felt a tight squeezing sensation in his chest when he expelled the air from his lungs. A couple of video’s of TJ doing his lung tests: TJ also had a dental appointment to repair a couple of his bottom teeth that he had chipped prior to his cancer diagnosis. This wasn’t done for aesthetic reasons but to stop germs from entering his body and infections from occurring. Chemotherapy lowers the number of white blood cells in the body and a person receiving the treatment is more prone to infections, including oral infections.
We were going to get braces for TJ after he completed his cancer treatment but we have been told that he will now have to wait another year or two after treatment. This is so that his immune system has time to recover etc. I guess we have more time now to save $8000 to get them done! 😮
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August 2018
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