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Year View| Summary| Highlights| April 2002 (Month View)
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01.04.2002 – Monday 1 April to Monday 15 April (15 days)
- • The probability of something having occured in this time-period is quite high.
16.04.2002 – Tuesday 16 April
- • A great deal of absolutely nothing has happened. It’s been a wet few weeks. Not the torrential downpours of the wet season, but wet and sodden nonetheless. The camera battery died, and being a Sony, required a special battery; so I now have a new battery. It’s twice the capacity of the old one, which is handy. I shall now go collapse in an appropriate spot. Collapsing at the keyboard is embarrassing. I might consider sleep.
17.04.2002 – Wednesday 17 April to Friday 26 April (10 days)
- • Life continued. Bacteria divided, mosquitoes bit, and moths flew into the light bulbs.
27.04.2002 – Saturday 27 April – Pneumothorax
- • Suffered a re-occurance of a spontaneous pneumothorax. I may have to spend some time in hospital ’inflating’.
I’ll let you know.
28.04.2002 – Sunday 28 April – X-Ray
- Midnight
- • After 8 litres per minute of Oxygen for 2 days, no positive change was noted so am now back home – attempting to recover and will have another X-Ray soon to check progress. Pain is under control, but sleeping isn’t pleasant – lying down isn’t comfortable. The good news is that mortality rates are less than 5% and this is a small ~5% collapse. The bad news is that it hurts, it re-occurs, it demands total rest, and it scares me that I might roll over and pop my lung when I’m sleeping. Anyway... off to bed.
29.04.2002 – Monday 29 April
- • I did nothing. Rested totally. Moved very little. Sat in my chair here and either read, or typed, or occasionally (for variety) went to sleep.
30.04.2002 – Tuesday 30 April
- • See above.
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