100 sats \ 0 replies \ @OneOneSeven 8 Mar freebie \ parent \ on: 4_F4ll_GuY_0x01.md mostly_harmless
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:
LOL Maybe I'll try this.