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@Mombi pretty good actually.
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How are you feeling now?
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@Mombi you see, the Lord works in mysterious ways.
I actually had a followup appointment today and the pulmonologist showed me my CT scan for the first time. He told me half my left lung had collapsed, which I didn't realize. It was pretty nifty seeing the fluid filled void and the odd impression my crushed lung material made.
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@alcade Insane. I got pneumonia about eight years ago. I felt like absolute hell but I didn't really take it all that seriously. When I finally went to the doctor he examined me and asked if I was a smoker (I was) and then said, "If you don't quit smoking this is going to keep happening, and every time it happens it's going to be worse than the time before, and eventually it's going to kill you." So yeah that's how I became a non-smoker.
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Back in September I had the pleasure of catching pneumonia. It kind of came on suddenly where I noticed pain whenever I breathed in deeply and couldn't climb the towers anymore without stopping five times on the ladder to catch my breath. I'd get a low grade fever in the evening that went away by the morning when I'd feel fine again.
I got it checked after a few weeks and the pneumonia had caused a pleural effusion so they had to do a thoracentesis. Managed to suck this out of my chest. Yum.