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[camwyn]

Finally got an appointment for my annual WTC Responder Health Registry exam that doesn't require me to leave the state of Massachusetts. Turns out the reason they kept having to make appointments in Providence was because nobody in Massachusetts was able to do the spirometry testing and measure my lung output- I guess all the lung output stuff is currently allocated for COVID patients/testing. Once the WTC people took that off the list of procedures they wanted me to get done this year I was able to get an appointment in Somerville. I'll have to rent a Zipcar and drive there, because I'm not gonna ride multiple forms of mass transit if I can help it (bus to blue line to State Street to orange line), but they'll be doing a blood test and a chest X-ray and the rest of the standard WTC responder exam. All of this is dependent on me not coming down with COVID between now and then, of course.

Not looking forward to this, but at least I'm not going to be sobbing because my attempts at using the spirometry device leave me in the middle of a coughing fit before the test can finish up. That's what happens when you ask me to do massive exhalations during cough, cold, and post-nasal drip season.