03-12-2005, 10:41 PM
DeeBye,Mar 11 2005, 11:03 PM Wrote:I should have known better because she tried eating a cookie a few hours prior and she immediately barfed it all up :wacko:
That reminds me of a very odd sensation I've felt before. The long and the short of it involved a collapsed left lung when I was the tender age of 18. Amongst the oddity's of the hospital visit I recall:
Before going to the hospital it felt like I had a cold. I went to a doctor, he gave me free allegra and I came home. Laying down I noticed my heart was beating very fast and very hard. The longer I layed down the louder it got. I went to the hospital after my mother could hear it beating from across the room. It felt like a finger was inside my chest, knocking on my ribs from the inside. Very odd. (The lung apparently rests just behind the heart, so the collapsed mass of my left lung forced my heart against my chest, hence the noise)
After local anesthetic on my chest, roughly 2 inches above my nipple I watched the doctor labourously shove a tube in my chest (he was grunting). I was wondering at the time why the nurse told me to sit on my hands :P . I could feel the tube going into me. No pain attached. But it was very odd.
Waking up from a minor thoratic surgery was pretty odd. I woke up with a quarter sized clear drainage tube running across my stomach. I couldn't see where the tube went into my side. Slowly inching up my side waiting to find the tube with my hand made every hair on my body stand on end.
The removal of the drainage tube was equally as odd. I layed on my side and was instructed to take a deep breath. So I did. Then I exhaled. And nothing had happened. So I figured on the third breath he would finally pull it. I took my second deep breath and *foomp* it was pulled out. I still can feel the tube being pulled out if I think about it.
All in all never too painful. Just... many odd feelings.
Cheers,
Munk