117 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek OP 8 Mar \ parent \ on: 4_F4ll_GuY_0x01.md mostly_harmless
Was ever a reason found? Or it can just happen to anyone? And it was fortunately just one lung, right? The redundancy in our bodies saved you from certain death?
Did you immediately go to the hospital? But they just didn't have the capacity for immediate surgery?
And haha yes, the "so far" part is important. I almost added this too but it felt out of place in the flow. Pain is something you will never forget. I obviously can't reproduce the pain but the emotions (is pain itself an emotion?) and despair I felt is something that is still strong in my mind. Writing about it took me back into this situation and how fast everything happened. At least in my memories.
If you want to memorize something, you probably just need to hit yourself very hard in the same moment lol
Oh wow, that's crazy! I always wondered if that's what happens if you feel extreme pain: if you realize "strongly enough" that the pain is not helping since it's supposed to be a signal for "hey, something is wrong here", we should be able to "control the pain" (mind > body).
But I guess if something is really wrong, like "you feel like dying right now"-wrong, you need to have a really strong mind to push through it
Warning, I may be unlocking new fears, haha!
No clear reason, which is usually the case with a Spontaneous Pneumothorax
In most cases of spontaneous pneumothorax, the cause is unknown. Tall and thin adolescent males are typically at greatest risk..
I remember them telling me at the ER that younger, thinner males were the most common. That was almost ten years ago so I was in my early 20's.
And it was fortunately just one lung, right?
Just the left, and it should never happen again now that the lung basically fused to my ribcage. But the thought of the other one collapsing has, of course, never left my mind since. At least I'll immediately recognize the symptoms. 🙃
The redundancy in our bodies saved you from certain death?
Yes, thankfully, our bodies are truly amazing.
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Haha! That comment size increased by around 450%!
So I'm laying in bed and by gf (now wife) is playing on the computer behind me, I got up and felt a sharp pain, like I got stabbed by a knife that was taped to the front of a truck.
I lay back down to watch TV or something and nothing seems to be wrong and don't think much of it. After maybe an hour I get up to go to the bathroom and we realize something is wrong. I can't get out a full sentence without needing to take a breath.
My wife zips me to the hospital and I skip over pretty much everyone in the wait room.
They first had to re-inflate the lung first ASAP, so they gave local anesthesia and put in a chest tube while I was awake. I think you need to be awake for the reinflation so you can breathe through it and get fill it back with air. Gaining air capacity, a very strange feeling, but once it re-inflated I felt pretty normal, aside from the chest tube sticking out of me.
I stay for a day or two so they monitor the lung, but it collapses again. Thankfully I didn't feel it at all, they could just tell by X-rays. At that point surgery is required:
Pleurodesis Pleurodesis is a procedure that sticks your lung to your chest wall. This procedure removes the space between your lung and your chest wall (pleural space) so that fluid or air no longer builds up between the layers.
If you want to memorize something, you probably just need to hit yourself very hard in the same moment lol
LOL Maybe I'll try this.
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