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My Roommate incidentally got HAPE last week....High Altitude Pulmonary Edema...we stayed about 3k feet above Breckenridge, CO so it was around 13k ft and a low fron came in which the Doc said essentially adds another 3k feet...so it was kind of like we were at 16k ft. He had to be rushed into the Doc & put on compressed Oxygen b/c his oxygen level in his blood was around 73%...yours or mine should be around 96%...the difference being nitrogen for him...and so he was spitting up blood & some yellowish substance (not mucus or bile, something else). It's super deadly...so lesson: check the altitude of your condo when going to the rockies...his medical bills were right around a $1K for that little trip, but he's alive and paying rent, so that's good.
-cory
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