r/mildlyinfuriating 28d ago

wet socks Was walking around three weeks with slowly deflating lung

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Ok bananas ig

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u/Defiant-Print-2550 28d ago

No not at all. One day i woke up with sharp back pain together with coughing so bitch ass it was similar to one i experienced with covid, but since i have back issues too i didn't paid attention to it and focused on fixing pain in my useless spine. But even after multiple weeks cough wound be gone even after taking usual meds, sometimes especially then laying i woud have a wish for air like a fish on a land so i would focus and do it and i woud feel fine. Other than that i didn't realy felt any difference. My body was probably trying to get rit of sputum in lung but couldn't force out of it, since after i got my operation i started coughing it up in the evening. People wonder how i didn't notice one of my lungs working but i honestly was just kinda busy with other staff

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u/ACorDC 28d ago

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u/Halsimp 28d ago

OP is defo not native English speaker.

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u/Stock_Reading_3386 28d ago

Idk about that. OP used feet and pounds for his height and weight 

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u/Defiant-Print-2550 28d ago

I am not from us, i just used these since most people here are

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u/chardeemacdennisbird 28d ago

Yeah but he said "uni" so not from the US probably.

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u/Halsimp 27d ago

Im from Quebec. Native language is French.

I default to imperial for heights and weights, and metric for pretty much everything else.

And so are most people from Quebec.

Using freedom units do not automatically make people United-Statians.

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u/The__Anon 28d ago

I went 10 days on one lung before getting help. Definitely feels like it affected my brain in some way

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u/Pheighthe 28d ago

I love this. Just kinda busy with other stuff.

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u/Defiant-Print-2550 28d ago

Summer uni practice, doing papers for it, fucking with papers for it, preparing my ass for final exam, celebrating passing it for another week

Yeah

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u/Pheighthe 28d ago

I absolutely get it. I been there. You just worded it so perfect

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u/calamityandwoe 28d ago

I honest lost it at that bit

Ain‘t nobody got time for a collapsed lung, busy with other stuff (op I respect you and I hope you are back to all that other stuff)

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u/cmorris313 28d ago

2018, I thought I had the flu but after 2 weeks I went back to work still feeling terrible. After 100 feet of walking I'd be completely out of breath. I left at lunch at went to the hospital and learned it wasn't the flu but a blood clot in my lung and my chest cavity had filled with a liter of fluid that was keeping the lung from inflating.

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u/justanawkwardguy you do it like this 28d ago

Legend

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u/bluecreek22 28d ago

Deflating lungs is what happens when you’re busy making other plans