I’m still wait­ing on the results of my pul­monary func­tion test. My appoint­ment for that test was on Novem­ber 5. When I asked the tech about how long I should expect to wait for the results, she said that I could prob­a­bly expect them within a week. Well, it’s now been a week and two days, and I’m still wait­ing. In the mean­time, my cough is get­ting bet­ter. I was able to sleep in my bed last night for the first time since Octo­ber 23rd. It was nice to be back in my room. As much as I don’t like feel­ing sick and cough­ing, I really don’t like sleep­ing in a bed that’s not mine for over 3 weeks.

I was hop­ing that this would be fairly eas­ily resolved. I thought maybe I’d be lucky. I’d do the PFT test, and they would get a clear result. I’m actu­ally still pray­ing for that. I do think it’s more likely from what I’ve read and heard that the result will be incon­clu­sive mean­ing that more tests are needed. I find that to be pretty frus­trat­ing. For one, I want to know what’s going on with my body and fix it. The other rea­son is that I haven’t given up hope for being able to run the half marathon in Fargo in May. It’s a pretty slim chance, and the door is clos­ing on my chances the longer I have to wait. I still have that as my ulti­mate goal, though. If I end up not being able to do the half, I do know a few peo­ple who have decided to run the 5k, so that is my backup plan.

I told Jason today that life is kind of funny. When I was run­ning, I was hop­ing that some­thing would hurt or stop me from being able to run. Now that I’ve had to take a break, and it looks like this is going to be a harder goal to achieve than I orig­i­nally though, I really want to do it!

I’m plan­ning to call my doc­tor on Mon­day to see if she’s heard any­thing. I hate to be a bother, but I’m won­der­ing if maybe some paper­work got mis­placed some­where or some­thing. It just seems like 7 work days is a long time to wait for results of a fairly sim­ple test. For all of you who pray, I would appre­ci­ate any prayers in this area.