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So everyone last sunday i got my first visit to the emergency room!!!!!!! i had a spontanous pneumothorax...pretty sure i spelled it wrong. anyways in laymans terms my left lung got a hole and collapsed. fun stuff. anyways i spent the last week in the hospital and im spending the rest of this week at home because im not yet strong enough for school. anyways i have a few funny hospital stories but im not feeling to good right now so ill type them later! just thought id let you all know!

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we dont know what to do.

! Yikes!

That really sounds dreadful!

How does one manage to get a hole in ones lungs spontaneously .

Hope you heal up fast and your fishies do well!

^_^

Sora you are welcome to that "Title" I have had my share over the last two years.

I hope you recover quickly being in hospital and home recovering is not fun at all.

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That sounds terrible Sora! Hope it didnt hurt too much!

Wishing you a very speedy recovery!

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Get well soon Sora.
I did a google on it
http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=35772
No scuba diving for you for a while Sora.

Babel i really dont know. i think that air bubbles in my lungs joined together then poped. but im not sure why it happend.
Thanks kieth and no its not. I have this thing still connected to my lung and i cant shower with it. ive had it since the emergency room so i havent showered in like 12 days. I SMELL!!!!!!
Carpe thanks. sadly it did hurt quite alot. my first thought was that i was having a heart attack. trouble breathing and chest pain. but anyways i spent all last week alternating between morphine and vicadin. yeck. funny storys though. when the wheeled me up to my room from the ER i was on alot of morphine and they had an aquarium near my room. soon as we went past it my eyes got really big and i started reaching for it and was saying FISH! I LOVE FISH! LETS GO SEE THE FISH! i think i scared the nurse bad. poor lady. later that night i fell asleep on my bed controls and moved my bed up and down all night and kept calling the nurses lol. apparently they didnt have the heart to wake me up thanks brengun. i was very upset about the scuba diving its one of my goals


The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we dont know what to do.

my grandma is currently in hospital, those moving beds set all the alarms off on her everytime they move her - i really think we need something more suitable these days... they only move so you dont get bed sores.
However, im sure the treatment/hospitals have a better rep over there than the ones here...shes been in hospital for 3 weeks now after a reversal of a colostomy and cathater bag (i have no idea how to spell those.) and nobody has any idea why she is still in there, none of the doctors know why (or speak english - upon asking you get the reply "not my patient", there was also feaces left on the bed..
My rant over.
Spose its free though, at least. I could afford to get properly ill in america i dont think!
Hope you recover well.
James

To deal with not being able to shower: baby wipe showers. Get a bunch of baby wipes, use them all over. You'll smell like new. (Campers' best kept secret)

Hope you feel better and heal up fast!

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those wipes only go so far lol. The hospital gave them to me. lol.

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we dont know what to do.

While you are all tied up start writing a list of all the things that you can pamper your self with as soon as possible.

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Hope you're all better now sora! How's that new tank coming along?

Well I had a relapse yesterday. I got carried out of the school on a stretcher. My very first ambulance ride! whoohoo. the docter sent me home after around 6 hours in the ER. i got this box in my chest again to help me breathe. This time though its in a much more painful area of my chest. but i should be ok. anyways i thought id update you guys. and patty the tanks going ok. aquascaping is at a halt due to lack of money thanks for asking! oh and also looks like im getting surgery..
toodles guys!

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we dont know what to do.

Looks like you just wanted to stay away from school but what a way to do it. Take it slowly and the body will recover when it is ready. All the best and a good recovery.

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No surgery yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so happy.

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we dont know what to do.

I know the exact feeling at my last Eye Dr visit I expected the big one more operation BUT, NONO just a change of medications and all is well now.

What ever your body is doing it is doing it very well.

Tell the body to keep up the good work.

Keith

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