Butterfinger
Well-Known Member
I'm on Vicodin right now for pain, so I might not make a lot of sense, but I wanted to tell everyone that I'm probably not gonna be here for the next couple of weeks or so, and I didn't just flake out and decide to leave the forum or something, considering that I just came back only like...last week.
I went into the emergency room for a spontaneously collapsed lung (spontaneous pneumothorax) New Year's Eve -- the 2nd, and after they fixed me up, they told me I had something like an 80% chance of it never happening again, and I was glad, because they had to stab a hole in my chest and put in a tube hooked up to a sucky machine for like...days, and it was so painful that I couldn't even sit up or lift an arm. (My blood pressure is naturally low, so they gave me very little pain medication) So I was looking forward to never having to do that again.
However, just this past week, the tiny hole in my lung that caused the collapse started leaking again instead of healing up, so now they'll have to do surgery and open me up and send little probe thingies up to my lungs to use lasers to seal the hole shut. And there will be more chest tubes again. Possibly two this time.
Anyway, enough of my wussy anticipation-of-pain whining. I just wanted to say I'd be gone for a little while, so...
Um...
I'm really scared about this, so if you could do whatever it is that your particular belief is, but for me, I'd really appreciate it. (Prayers, vibes, ritual shamanistic carrot sacrifice, etc)
Thanks :tears2:
I went into the emergency room for a spontaneously collapsed lung (spontaneous pneumothorax) New Year's Eve -- the 2nd, and after they fixed me up, they told me I had something like an 80% chance of it never happening again, and I was glad, because they had to stab a hole in my chest and put in a tube hooked up to a sucky machine for like...days, and it was so painful that I couldn't even sit up or lift an arm. (My blood pressure is naturally low, so they gave me very little pain medication) So I was looking forward to never having to do that again.
However, just this past week, the tiny hole in my lung that caused the collapse started leaking again instead of healing up, so now they'll have to do surgery and open me up and send little probe thingies up to my lungs to use lasers to seal the hole shut. And there will be more chest tubes again. Possibly two this time.
Anyway, enough of my wussy anticipation-of-pain whining. I just wanted to say I'd be gone for a little while, so...
Um...
I'm really scared about this, so if you could do whatever it is that your particular belief is, but for me, I'd really appreciate it. (Prayers, vibes, ritual shamanistic carrot sacrifice, etc)
Thanks :tears2: