128 sats \ 2 replies \ @OneOneSeven 8 Mar \ parent \ on: 4_F4ll_GuY_0x01.md mostly_harmless
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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234 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 8 Mar
I sent my comment too fast and updated it to reply to so more stuff. Just fyi, I think you replied too fast for my editing skills :)
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 8 Mar
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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