If this was a year ago, my capacity to exhale for a breathalyzer would have been impaired due to the lung disease I had been diagnosed with in early March, then being hospitalized with the flu a month later. I could drive just fine but my FEV/FEVC wasn't great & I suppose the chances of not being able to forcefully blow into a breathalyzer machine could have been impaired enough for them to give me the side-eye & I imagine I could have ended up with the same issues the woman in the article has faced. I was not impaired to drive, just my forced expiratory volume was impaired. A year on, my FEV/FEVC is mostly normal though it declines some when I have a serious cold. I'd have been perfectly willing to do any other testing they'd require, though with an identified disability/physical impairment, there should have been something for this woman and for me, that was an inbetween of losing her license/vehicle. I suppose I should ask my pulmonologist for a letter outlining my occasional issues with forced expiratory volume, etc. Who knows if it would do any good though.
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