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mjakob42 Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Well, it's good to have you back, Mr. Finest. I'm terribly sorry to hear that things haven't been going too well, and I'm terribly sorry to hear about your cousin. You have my thoughts and regards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mjakob42 Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Things are also a little crazy over here, but other than that, things are alright. Just getting ready for basic late this year, and watching a lot of movies lately. That's. About. It. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redeemer Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 I'm really sorry about your family member, my thought are with you and yours. If you ever need a friendly ear, I'm always around. You've had some bad luck recently - I hope things improve for you. <3 On a lighter note, I look forward to seeing you around here more. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeth Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 I'm sorry 'bout your cousin, dude. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gestalt Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Welcome back to the squad, Corporal...can't wait to get back to 'SF-ing' :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Geo Stelar Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 Oh man, that's too bad. Well, we sure hope you get better soon!! Good luck on the procedure, I hope nothing goes wrong... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sroberson Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 I'm going to respond to this thread with a larger post in a while, I just can't spend too much time leaned over my phone while at work >_>... Just thought I would throw it out there in case you thought nobody was reading ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Alrighty, now to finish up this post. Apologies for not keeping up and posting in this thread when it first came up. My appearances here are somewhat on and off too lately with summer school picking up and going through some other life changes. Did they ever find out what caused your lung to collapse? To me that doesn't sound like something that just "randomly happens." I have never had any serious issues on my part medically (knock on wood, though I have been having this pretty excruciating pain going through my arm that started today...Hoping its just dehydration from drinking, well...too much lately) so I can't really relate to you as far as hospital stays go...but from what I understand, its pretty horrible and expensive. I assume you have someone else around to help with, well, just about everything as you don't have to look to far to find something that weighs over 10 lbs. Now that I think of that, that really really sucks. My textbook for class probably weighs at least that much Methinks you don't have reason to worry about fitting in, its probably the fact that you (and I actually) are still pretty new to the site and are not as recognizable - maybe. Personally if I had to take a stab i'd say you are considered more of a familiar face around here than myself , so I feel jealous in a way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sroberson Posted June 8, 2012 Share Posted June 8, 2012 How tall are you? For some reason it made me think of another medical finding in taller people that suggests they have heart issues with the connection the aorta makes to the ventrical...but I think that's only in situations with giants. I just couldn't help but wonder if there is some connection somehow. They didn't happen to notice any chance it could have been punctured? When you say "thin" I imagine people with smaller rib cage frames or maybe something about them not expanding when you breathe? I imagine if it was due to smoking they would have found known pretty easily. It sounds like something that would only happen if your lungs were tarred black and hardened. In fact, thinking of it, if you had to tell the doctor that you smoked then you probably have rather limited damage to your lungs which is good news. Many scans that they obviously ran on you should have found the fact that you smoked. That procedure you mentioned about scarring the lungs to prevent the blebs from rupturing made me cringe quite a bit, just so you know . I will probably not get that image out of my head for a while. I just reread that part about the blebs...Did you say that the doctors identified the cause of the collapsed lung to be because of bursting blebs? I tend to answer long thread posts by slowly working on it sentence by sentence so I don't get to reading conclusions until I have already made a lengthy paragraph lol Yeah I have to scratch my head about the whole lack of thought in "preventative" medicine in this country (I presume the United States). To make another adage, "An ounce of prevention, a pound of cure". Progressiveness is apparently a sin, either that or the idea of preventative care has come up but the drug companies crush it when it reaches the senate and congress. [/politicalrant] I get a feeling some lack of response could be because some aren't sure how to respond. Its kind of like when people come to me to talk about problems in real life, I have a hard time worrying about it sometimes and can't come up with a decent response other than just be a stick in the mud and be the "misery loves company" kind of person. I know I personally can't post just "get well soon!" because it feels too impersonal and fake. As a result I have to try and come up with the time to properly respond and thus I have been here for a good 5 minutes or so and still focusing on the same thing (ITS A MIRACLE!!) lol. I guess since I haven't said it yet though, "Here's to hoping you get better soon and more permanently!" :friends: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sroberson Posted June 9, 2012 Share Posted June 9, 2012 I'm about 6'2"-6'3" but extremely thin. It absolutely isn't from an "injury". I call it an injury...because once it happens you are obviously injured. I'll say! Considering your inability to leave a hospital for weeks or so and the necessity for morphine i'd probably rephrase "injury" to, "trauma". Which I suppose having a lung spontaneously collapse falls under that anyways. It happened while I was just standing still in my driveway talking very calmly to my neighbor. Just a crazy pain in the left side of my chest that came out of nowhere. I thought it was a heart-attack or something cardiac at first, obviously. I would have probably thought cardiac problems at first too honestly. With smoking causing problems like that and that weird occurrence of spontaneous cardiac arrest I have heard of some taller athletes having (although pretty rare). I imagine your neighbor probably freaked out a bit. I'm kind of surprised you didn't feel this pressure building up on your chest since it doesn't sound like it is a sudden thing and happens over time. Having simple air pockets wandering around one's chest cavity sounds rather unpleasant. About the body-type...the reason why tall and thin people are at-risk is because their body shape stretches their lungs vertically slightly. This obviously puts a small amount of extra tug on these blebs and makes them more likely to burst. Believe me, I cringed a whole lot when they first told me what they wanted to do also. As for doing the other lung...I think if you ever have the misfortune of having to endure this surgery and the lengthy recovery process also...you'd completely understand why they absolutely don't do it unless it's needed. There's no EXTRA risk of my right lung having this happen just because it happened to the left lung. Obviously the fact that my left lung collapsed means my right lung has the same risk...but it doesn't mean that my right lung is now more vulnerable. It's in the same position as it was before all this happened. It's one of those, "if it's going to happen, it's going to happen and there's really nothing you can do about it" scenarios. Guess that makes sense, though I would have thought having I guess.. a "normal" body type without the extra vertical stretch in the lungs it would still feel the same amount of pressure...but I guess it isn't so much pressure as its simply more of a rupturing deal. I still feel like its a bit silly to forgo preventative care since it only makes sense to assume it will happen again, in which case its another expensive trip to the doctor for them to take care of the problem and then reconsider the scarring of the lungs (which I guess that procedure can be summed up by saying that). That week in the hospital was extremely painful. I had a button that was hooked up to my IV that I could press and it would give me morphine. It's connected to a computer of some sort that determines how much you are getting to prevent dangerous doses. It makes a beep when it "works" and you can sit there and press it 100 times after that and it won't give you anymore for another 10 minutes or so. I can't remember what the time windows are. I can tell you I spent 5 days doing nothing but spamming that button and praying every time that it had been long enough and I would hear that beep. Very painful. My chest hurt from the surgery but my whole torso also hurt because I had a 2-3" tube going into the side of my chest. That tube is connected to a machine that uses water to create suction to help draw air out of the chest cavity. In fact, the pain pretty much NEVER got any better until the night before I was discharged when they, quite literally, (get ready to cringe again) yanked that damn tube out of my chest. Yanked...the tube....out.... GAH! Another graphic image...I once considering studying to be a doctor but I am starting to realize I can't deal with the uh...well I guess quite frankly the gross factor >_> . I suppose you weren't able to sleep very well having to constantly hope for more morphine. I don't want to get too personal with you.....but there are many many non-medical events and happenings surrounding this entire ordeal (in the days leading up to the random collapse one week before the surgery) and then things that happened while I was in the hospital that makes it impossible for me to believe that this didn't happen for a reason. I'm not even a super-religious person but this has definitely changed my life forever. Again, I'm not going to get too specific but there was an event that occurred during my days in the hospital that involved a dream and my cousin and it was absolutely astoundingly powerful. I am actually THANKFUL that this happened to me and I truly mean that. Life is crazy. If you don't mind me asking, why do you think this happened to you? Its cool if that's too personal. I'm not the super religious person either, so it always is interesting to me to see how others rationalize events in their lives. I personally know I would at least be thankful to be out of a hospital and not have...a ...tube...in ...my..... .....ugh, that image again... I agree, life is crazy - but yours sounds a lot more crazy than mine lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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