My field trip to the hospital
As you most may or may not know, I was in The Alfred hospital. Went in at 9pm New Years Eve, and got discharged a week later. I had another spontanious pneumothorax, which is basically a hole in the lung where air escapes into the chest every time you breath, and builds up into a pocket of air and in turn compresses your lung making it more difficult to breath.
The day I went in, we first tried to let it sort itself out and see how it was a few hours later, which was a bad idea as it got much worse. They stuck two relatively small tubes in to suck the air out and let my lung reinflate, which was a working solution until the lung collapsed again. Next they tried the two "garden hoses", which are much much bigger tubes stuck in between my ribs, they were roughly a foot long each into my chest, and rather big diameter wise. They hooked these tubes up to a pump, and I had these in for 5 days, fun times.
Obviously an X-Ray, you can see the pocket of air in the top right corner, where it's much blacker on the right side as compared to the left:
TUBES!:
Pain management goodness, no fucking clue how it worked, but it's sort of like an intravenous drip:
A few days after getting discharged:
Thanks to everyone who dropped by, I'm very grateful.
And thus concludes my trip to the hospital. Questions?
The day I went in, we first tried to let it sort itself out and see how it was a few hours later, which was a bad idea as it got much worse. They stuck two relatively small tubes in to suck the air out and let my lung reinflate, which was a working solution until the lung collapsed again. Next they tried the two "garden hoses", which are much much bigger tubes stuck in between my ribs, they were roughly a foot long each into my chest, and rather big diameter wise. They hooked these tubes up to a pump, and I had these in for 5 days, fun times.
Obviously an X-Ray, you can see the pocket of air in the top right corner, where it's much blacker on the right side as compared to the left:
TUBES!:
Pain management goodness, no fucking clue how it worked, but it's sort of like an intravenous drip:
A few days after getting discharged:
Thanks to everyone who dropped by, I'm very grateful.
And thus concludes my trip to the hospital. Questions?