My exciting weekend!

[Michael]

To give you a rough idea of myself; I'm 17, work full time as a webdesigner, Ice and roller skate every week. I weigh about 8.5 stone, am anout 5'9" and am quite skinny but toned. I don't smoke or do any drugs.

Day 1 - Thursday
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So, whilst really working up a sweat, as you do, sat at my desk staring at photoshop, i suddenly feel a really sharp pain in my back. I know this pain. I got it about four months ago and just lived with it for three weeks. It hurt to walk more than twenty metres, and it hurt just moving around.

I decided to go see my GP anyway so called up and they told me to go the same day. I left work early and got a Taxi there. My GP couldn't really see anything wrong with me and told me to 'live with it', but decided I should get an X-Ray anyway. I walked from the GP to the main road to get the bus (To go two stops) and was in absolute agony. I tried to crash on the bed when I got in but it hurt to lie down. What the hell is wrong with me? I didn't do anything to damage myself.

Day 2 - Friday
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After an agonizing night of pain, I wake up with absolutely no intention of going to work. I decide to phone the hospital to book my X-Ray and they tell me to go on down at 4. Stay at home and sit at the PC while I wait.

Head for my X-Ray at the small hospital... it gets taken. As soon as they see it: "Go to the Vic. Now!"... ah that's reassuring, something is majorly wrong. At least i'm not imagining it.

Get there, no wait whatsoever... FULL waiting room, yet they knew I was on my way (Guess they phoned ahead at the other hospital) and took me straight into a room full of painful looking things and lay me down.

"Your lung has collapsed."

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... wtf?


Saturday and Sunday are me lay in bed with a tube hanging out of my chest to a bottle type thing to release air and reinflate my lung. Great fun.

It also means i spent three weeks walking around with a collapsed lung at one point too, and becuase this is a second time it's leading me to believe it's not going to be the last I hear of it.


Ah well, week off work ahoy

[mr_anderson187]

Holy ****! that sounds a bit serious, hope you get better, reminds me of a movie i saw, Three Kings i think, that dude got shot and had a bum lung, anyway, hope you get better, sounds like a bit of a krapper on your weekend, not something to wish on anyone certainly

[tiggerai]

It's happened to my brother... doesn't sound nice.

means you can't go diving or flying for a while either.

Hope it's feeling better.

[Yohji]

Whoah... That sounds harsh man!

Hope you get better.

[TeePee]

Maybe this is a rallying cry to do something about that eating disorder. You are seriously underweight.

[ajbrun]

How could something like that happen? Surley it doesn't just "happen"? Did you injure yourself in some way or something?

Hope you get better soon .

[Michael]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumothorax

[Kezzer]

Dang, sorry to hear that mate, hope you recover quickly.

Just out of curiousity, how's the web designing going? 17 is a good age to go into it full-time

[Rave]

I've heard of this happening to other people as teenagers and it doesn't necessarily recur. Still pretty scary though!

I suspect it might be something to do with growth spurts or something. If you're 5'9 and 8.5 stone then your BMI is 17.5 which is technically underweight (normal range is 18.5-25). You probably need to catch up and fill out or something.

[Theo]

Keep it up dude, stay well.

[Michael]

Cheers for the kind words all, am fine now. Signed myself out after they removed the tube because they wanted me to stay in another night due to the fact hte doctor couldn't sign me out with it being weekend and he/she was all over the area doing other stuff.

/just out of curiousity, how's the web designing going? 17 is a good age to go into it full-time

It's alright. Had a crap week last week (Lung collapsing at the end of it didn't help I guess), I moved to it from being the I.T. Manager at another place... I was being exploited for my skill, not enough pay really, however I had it pretty easy and could go a day or two in a row without even looking at anything remotely work related. With the new job it's pretty "meet the targets or you're gone" kinda thing. Guess I have the IT job to fall back on though.

[mr_anderson187]

Good to hear your better, had to fight the urge to just reply 0WNED in my first reply up there

web designers im stuck at uni, :s

[[DW]Cougho]

Yeh my mate has had it a few times, very painful, unlucky mate.

Your most susceptible to it if your tall, slim, a smoker and a bit active (say lifting things regularly in work or something)

Apparantly if you have a funnel or pigeon chest your also more susceptible.

[Tarffie]

My General Manager had a couple of weeks off with a collapsed lung.
Apparantly she did it by falling out of a taxi whilst absolutely blotto though. Silly tart.

[smtkr]

This happened to my best friend in high school. I remember he started complaining. I couldn't resist calling him a whimp and harassing him royally. Man, I felt like a real tool after that.

[Clstrphbc_donut]

Your sister told me about it on MSN a few hours after you'd gone. Glad your better now mate.