HenryHavoc
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- Mar 24, 2008
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I'll just post the note I wrote on my facebook today:
I'll try to make this as short as I can without skipping the good stuff =P
Basically saturday at around 8 I started to feel a weird pain in the left side of my chest. It felt like it was getting weighed down, which was different from the sharp pains I normally get in my chest when something bad happens. I took a hearburn pill, but after the pain started spreading, and radiated all over my chest, I knew it was something a little more severe than heartburn. My mom decided to call 911 once I started having trouble breathing, so we waited for the paramedics to come.
When they showed up, they put me on an oxygen mask and asked my mom which hospital I was going too. This was a shock, because we were thinking it was something very minor and maybe that they would go tell me to drink some fluids, lay down, reboot my PC, etc.
At this point, even with oxygen, I am having VERY unsteady breathing. I'll skip the ambulence ride, because it was exactly as fun as it sounds.. An ambulence ride.
After about 5 minutes or so, I get to St. Elizabeth hospital, in which I get an EKG, which told me I wasn't having a heart related problem. This was a relief, and because I was starting to breathe a little better, I thought I would be home within an hour or so. Boy was I wrong.
The doctor comes in and say I have a collapsed lung. Yeah, a fucking collapsed lung. Now if you think anything like I do, your probably sitting there saying the obvious solution:
"Well, just pump it back up"
It's not that simple actually. See, what I have is a PNEUMOTHORAX, which is exactly what the name implies. A hole in my lung. I have a fairly impressive one actually, which has about a 40%-50% leak. So the problem is that I have a hole in my lung, and with every breath I take, it lets out a little air into my chest cavity, which is actually outside my lungs. This air and fluid builds up and presses down on my lung making it harder to breathe and causing me to take more shallow breaths.
Anyways, I was transfered to childrens hospital here in cincinatti. Sunday morning I had surgery, in which a pretty good sized chest tube was stuck in between my ribs and into my chest cavity. Its connected into a box on the floor that sucks out all the air and bad fluids that aren't supposed to be there.
Once I woke up from the surgery, I was in a LOT of pain. Due to this, I'm currently getting doses of acetominaphin, codine and oxycodone orally, and morphine through my IV. Theres been many times where I literally cried as loud as I could because I was in so much pain.
Hospital food is great, though! I've had hamburgers, fried chicken, gatorade, larosas pizza, chocolate milkshakes, etc. If you can dream it, its on the menu. And they bring it
to your room! How great is that =D.
Today (tuesday) I finally sat up by myself, and even washed my hair for the first time. Trust me, when you've layed in a bed for over 62 hours straight and haven't sat up once (yes, that means 3 days with the same underwear, socks, etc), little things cheer you up.
So yeah, heres one thing that is really rubbing me in the wrong way. I guess I kinda assumed that because I almost died, people would kind of look at my situation and kind of not be a dick? But theres a certain person out there that is actually TAKING CREDIT for this. He said that he beat me up so bad that he put me in the hospital. And even worse, he's GLAD I'm in here and said he wishes I would DIE.
What a heartless asshole. First of all, Pnemothorasis' happen completely randomly, and they have no cause. They like to target tall, skinny males around the ages of 15-18. So no, he didn't cause it. Just don't listen to him. The simple fact that he would play around with death like that and laugh at it is just fucked up.. I can't stick up for myself because of my obvious future disabilities, but I know someone will shut him up once they realize the situation I'm in.
Anyways, I'm done messing with this. I'm in a lot of pain right now so I'm going to go now and try to rest my lung.
