Sunday, July 20, 2008

Pre-HBOT Checkup

Today, we visited the Hyperbaric Centers of California (HCOC) in Ventura to meet with Dr. Hirani. Dr. Hirani is the Medical Director at HCOC, and she performed the pre-HBOT physical which is needed to confirm that Peg is a candidate for the treatments.

We also met with Mike Bittner, a co-founder HCOC, and, as always, he was willing and able to answer all of our questions.

Peg "passed", so she will begin her HBOT therapy tomorrow, with three treatments scheduled for the coming week. We don't expect much of the Herx reaction at first, so we expect her to do pretty well for now. It will be a challenge for Peg just to go into the chamber and to wear the oxygen hood, as she tends to be a bit claustrophobic. We'll see how well she does tomorrow.

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