Another long -term conern is pulmonary fibrosis, a progressive disease in which scars thickens and hardens lung tissue, which makes oxygen move to the bloodstream. Dr. Elsayegh describes a lung with pulmonary fibrosis as “a rigid globe of the party store”: his face rins while trying to force the air inside, but simply refuses to inflate.
As former resident of Palisades, he tries to return to the neighborhood, Dr. Ir. Elsayegh is also duplicating as a confidant confident, taking advantage of his personal experience to help his patients face uncertainties and find solutions, or the next steps, at least.
“In an ideal world, I would enter there and say: ‘All those who live in Las Palisades and in Los Angeles County, let’s move.” That is not reality. I am trying to find this incredibly different balance or help us return to normal or return to our life, but do it as a safely as possible. “
At the beginning of February, Dr. Elsayegh lifted a chair with Dana Michels, a cybernetic security lawyer and a healthy mother of three children who had gone to check the damage at home and now could not shake the cough.
“Honey, you are not moving air at all,” said Dr. Elsayegh, listening hung through a stethoscope and quickly ordering breathing test and a nebulizer to start. A pulmonary student asked to listen, then looked at Dr. Elsayegh, looking confused.
“I’m not listening to anything,” said the student. Dr. Elsayegh gave a single assent.
After years of rent, Mrs. Michels and her husband obtained their first mortgage almost four years ago; It was a family milestone. Now, with their home of Palisades smoked, the family is divided between two rental apartments in Marina del Rey, one for boys, one for girls, and sail through a new school, new insurance papers and new recipes to administer wheezing.