Re: Arnold's son suffers boogie boarding accident

2011-07-26 Thread GMoney
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Judah McAuley 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 tissu

Re: Arnold's son suffers boogie boarding accident

2011-07-26 Thread Judah McAuley
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,

Re: Arnold's son suffers boogie boarding accident

2011-07-26 Thread GMoney
That is exactly what happened to me.only it happened 3 times. The first time i thought i was having a heart attack. They operated on me after the second one, because they said after it happens a second time, it'll probably keep happening. They went in and removed the sac around my lung, then

Re: Arnold's son suffers boogie boarding accident

2011-07-25 Thread Judah McAuley
My lung collapse was a spontaneous partial pneumothorax...which in laymans speak means that one day I woke up and a small hole developed in the top of my left lung and it partially collapsed, for no obvious reason. It felt like having a bungie cord wrapped around my lungs, couldn't draw a breath

Re: Arnold's son suffers boogie boarding accident

2011-07-25 Thread Grussgott
Not to pry but how??? Sent from my iPad On Jul 25, 2011, at 8:52 AM, GMoney wrote: > > My lungs have collapsed 3 times...it's not pleasant. > > On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > >> >> Collapsed lung, broken bones for the 13 yeard old. He's in ICU but expected >> to mak

Re: Arnold's son suffers boogie boarding accident

2011-07-25 Thread GMoney
My lungs have collapsed 3 times...it's not pleasant. On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Robert Munn wrote: > > Collapsed lung, broken bones for the 13 yeard old. He's in ICU but expected > to make a full recovery: > > http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/state&id=8265863 > > Having been

Arnold's son suffers boogie boarding accident

2011-07-23 Thread Robert Munn
Collapsed lung, broken bones for the 13 yeard old. He's in ICU but expected to make a full recovery: http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/state&id=8265863 Having been ragdolled in 20 foot waves and living to tell the tale, my heart goes out to this young man and his family. The ocean i