Hello Everyone!
Thank you all for your well wishes. They really meant a lot, and I will be responding to everyone who sent me an email shortly.
I returned from the hospital on Thursday, and have been laying on the couch watching MTV, MTV2, MTVtr3s, MTVH, MTVJ, VH1, VH1classics, VH1soul, and VH1uno since. I find watching dumb people live their lives entertaining. (just kidding
)
Anyway, I was on anywhere up to 6 drugs at any one point while in the hospital, including morphine, and several other drugs listed at the bottom of this
page. The doctor said that a pneumothorax is one of the only natural things that can happen to a guy that is more painful than child labor. Huh.
This is my second pneumothorax, and it happened on December 4th as I was getting out of the shower, and about to brush my teeth. Last year I had one on December 6th (go figure), and I was riding in the car. A pneumothorax of the type that I had is spontaneous, and is most common in tall, skinny, teenage, white males
(not limited to this group, but is most common in.) If you've ever met me, you know what I'm talking about.
If anyone else has questions about it, like what it felt like, or what they did about it to prevent it from coming back, or if you're likely to have one, or more statistics, or whatever, just post, and I'll answer to the best of my ability. I learned a lot while in the hospital, but the drugs made me forget most of what I did there.
Which reminds me..... Somebody thought it would be funny to give me a laptop while I was on pain meds. You may have noticed seemingly random posts in various threads about my opinion on something, but written really poorly. I sincerely apologize about that
My uncle actually called me a day after my surgery and told me a phrase to remember, and told me he would pay me $150 if I could remember the phrase a week later. Sure enough, when he called me a week later, I could barely remember him telling me that, let alone the phrase. So I didn't get it. Ah well.
I'm recovering well, with a vaseline gauze bandage seal where (one of the) holes going to my lung was. I'm taking it easy, just watching TV. I got excused from all of my university courses for the semester, and will be able to finish out the work next semester. I'll be returning to school in January (hopefully).
Anyway, I ought to be getting to bed. Thanks for everyone's support, and I'll be happy to answer any questions.
Sincerely,
Jacob