Texan123

I hope someone can help me. My cousin who is 67 and has been healthy and active all his life is ill. He was in California this summer when the forest fires started. They triggered something in him and he now has very diminished lunch capacity: 25%. However, his tissue oxygenation is 98%. This seems totally contradictory. He lives in the Houston Texas area and the physicians have done a bunch of heart tests to rule out heart disease. In the meantime only his wife seems to be worried that his color is gray and he must sit totally straight up or cannot breathe. Tough to sleep this way. This has now been going on for some months and they just keep doing heart tests. His wife thinks it might be coccidioidomycosis or lyme's disease since they were in the southwest and camping in the woods. No one will listen to her to test for this. They haven't even recommended he have oxygen at home. Does anyone have any idea what these symptoms might be? He wheezes and gasps and now low quality of life now. I have recommended that she find a doctor that will run these two tests and also have oxygen available at home. I also recommended they not allow the heart biopsy until they get results back on these tests.