1/ THREAD. Today I saw my pulmonologist for a follow-up on the state of my lungs, almost six months to the day when I got hospitalized with #COVID19 (3/16), and three months after my last check-up (6/8).
2/ The bottom line: although my lungs are not back to the way they were pre-COVID, overall they are looking good, and the damage shouldn't really affect my day-to-day life.
4/ My lungs are far better than they were when I was on the ventilator back in March. This is a bit apples-to-oranges, since the left image is a CT scan and the right image is an x-ray, but you can see the difference here (black = good, cloudiness = bad):
5/ He listened to my lung sounds with a stethoscope (auscultation). Everything sounded normal and clear.
6/ I took some pulmonary function tests (PFTs), which measure things like lung volume, capacity, rates of flow, and gas exchange. They showed nothing concerning -- and improvement since my last visit in June.
7/ Could my lungs continue to get better? Unclear, my pulmonologist said. The improvement could continue, or it could have run its full course. We'll see in six months at my next checkup.
8/ I asked him if I should continue with my inhaler use, Symbicort (maintenance) and Proventil (rescue). He said that if I've been feeling good, which I have, I can stop them and see how my lungs do (and go back on them if I have problems).
9/ I feel very fortunate to be doing as well as I am, in light of the many #LongCovid sufferers who still have lung and breathing problems, and I'm very thankful for the great care I received (and continue to receive).
10/ I would be classified as "still recovering" for purposes of this interesting article about lung problems of recovering #COVID19 patients, since my CT scan is still abnormal (six months after I first got sick).
11/ But on the bright side, my lungs have gotten much better since I was in the hospital in March, and what shows up in my CT scan doesn't seem to bother me much day to day. (Thanks to @PatsyCrowley8 for the article.)
1/ 🧵Judge Allison Burroughs (D. Mass.) said it was "greedy" of @JeannieSGersen to push for greater disclosure of sealed portions of the trial-court record in the @Harvard affirmative-action case.
2/ But as @JeannieSGersen writes in her @NewYorker piece, "it is not greedy for the public to expect the transparency on which the courts’ legitimacy depends."
3/ The need for greater transparency applies to both the judicial proceedings in the Harvard case and the underlying admissions process at issue in the litigation (now before #SCOTUS).
2/ One issue is @FedSoc has much more money than @acslaw or @NLGnews, so it can invite more speakers.
I wonder why some left-of-center billionaire doesn’t come forward to fund an organization focused on promoting progressive ideas in the legal world.
3/ I think one lesson that can be derived from @FedSoc is that because the law touches so many areas of public life, “investing” in moving the law can generate outsized returns—there’s a multiplier effect.
1/ As I mentioned earlier (via various retweets), here's the 10-page memo from Stanford Law Dean Jenny Martinez about the recent protest of Judge Kyle Duncan at @StanfordLaw and its aftermath.
2/ Today I have a podcast episode to post at Original Jurisdiction (with the wonderful @SonyaOldsSom), but I plan to write about Dean Martinez's memo for tomorrow or Friday.
I welcome your thoughts (anonymous if you like): davidlat at substack dot com. Thx!
3/ I reached out to Judge Kyle Duncan for comment on Dean Martinez's memo.
Judge Duncan said he hasn't had the chance to review yet, but will likely address in his Friday talk at @NotreDame (which will be livestreamed):
1/ 🧵If you are willing to get down into the weeds, here is my deep dive into the disruptive protest of Fifth Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan at Stanford Law School (originally reported on by @EdWhelanEPPC).
2/ I published it just in time to include @StanfordLaw Dean Jenny Martinez's statement.
I just updated the post to (a) add links to stories from @aaronsibarium and @nateraymond, and (b) add reactions to Dean Martinez's statement from my SLS sources.
3/ For a more critical take on Dean Martinez's statement, see this thread from @EdWhelanEPPC.