On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com>wrote:
> > Yuck. They described that surgery to me and told me I'd have to have > it if my lung kept collapsing further, don't want to put too much > pressure in the lower part of the left lung as that can trap the > aorta. The roughing up the tissue was described to me as like > "patching a bicycle tire". Awesome, eh? > > Glad that mine only happened once and that yours has seemed to have > stopped happening. > I had my surgery in august of '94 and it was done laproscopic. Only 10 or so years prior to that, the surgery i described was done by cutting open the chest and....well, i don't even want to continue. So it could have been MUCh worse for me than it was...and it was already bad enough i decided. This occurred during my first day on a college campus, by the way. I missed my entire orientation and first few days of class, and was anemic for my entire first semester. Walking to class literally wiped me out. I was the only freshman who slept through his entire first college class....with the teacher's blessing (they knew what i'd been through). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:340988 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
