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Altitude sickness

Mary Jean Zuttermeister, DC

Bernardston, Massachusetts

Jean and Pete were planning to vacation in Colorado to visit relatives. They had to decline to do any activities that required physical exertion because they suffered from altitude sickness and inability to breathe. One of them has asthma, and the other weaknesses of the lungs and bronchial tubes.

I had them visualize a white sign stating the altitude. We started at sea level. I checked the OD and continued checking every 1000 feet or so. Every time I got an OD I adjusted whatever showed up. We continued all the way up to 14,110 feet and continued all the way back down to sea level.

They went off to Colorado and returned home. Not one bit of altitude sickness or breathing difficulties, unlike the people around them. They went to the top of Pike’s Peak and Loveland pass, and not only completed the walking and stairs which they couldn’t even start the last time they were in Colorado, but continued on and completed other endeavors.

She had no trouble the entire trip. What a great opportunity KST offered to them.

                            

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