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“How do you feel?” Steve asked.

“Fine,” I said, thinking this was

going to be easy.

“That’s good,” he laughed,

“because they haven’t decreased the

cabin pressure and opened the doors.”

Everyone talked and visited, each

feeling they would be okay. But

when the cabin pressure was

decreased and the door opened, I

suddenly gasped for air. I began to

feel the strange sensation of the

altitude sickness that Steve had told

me about. It started with tingling in

my toes, similar to when the blood is

restricted to a limb of the body and

then allowed to flow again. From the