jeez wrote:Hi, TTH,
Are you sleeping in a dog house? I hope not. It's Christmas!
I have some really good news for you! Merry Christmas!
I did go to my brother's house tonight, and I did talk to my sisters about you. One is a doctor, a family physician, not a surgeon or specialist, and the other is a Chiropractor, but she is not practicing. She teaches health sciences and medical terminology at a technical college.
Anyway, both of them said there must be a misunderstanding, and I said, Oh, that would be me! I didn't understand at all!
They both concurred that the lungs can't just get up and move behind the sternum, because that is where they are already located! They are behind the sterum!
Also, they both said that the lungs can't detach from the chest wall because they're not attached to the chest wall in the first place. They can't be attached because they have to be able to inflate, so they can't detach!
They both said there would never be a case of 5 surgeries. They wouldn't even do that for cancer. Maybe you meant appendectomy and tonsillectomy or ear tubes. I've had 7 surgeries! LOL!
The doctor said that the only time the lung would ever push on the heart hard enough to stop it, would be in the case of trauma, like a car accident, and then there would be an emergency surgery.
And the final good news, was that if it was an emergency, they wouldn't even have to wait for a transplant! They can just remove a piece of the lung or a whole lung. No problem!
I thought that was the best Christmas news, ever!
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Jeez!!!!
Apparently there is a huge misunderstanding. First of all lungs are not attached to the chest wall, correct, then there would be no pleural space.
I have had 5 surgeries, but only two pertained to my lungs. The surgeries that were done attached parts of my lungs to the chest wall. I would have to be hit so hard in the chest to cause the lung to push on the heart. That is the problem. It is ripping apart on its own. I don't know if you think this is a joke or not. It is not a joke to me when everytime it rips more the incridibe pain I endure (all with no pain killers). I have been to the best medical lung transplant doctors in this area. There is nothing they can do.
You are correct, in the case of am emergency, yes they can go in and do what? Remove part of the lung you say? I have already had that done. Parts are stapled too. One lung ripped apart, the other removed = 0 lungs. I can do the math. I am not a DR., but I can read my medical records and I have the x-rays, cat scans and mri. I also know 0+0= 0
End of story.
I don't know how this all got turned around. Parts are obviously my fault if that is how you interpreted what I wrote. It isn't easy to explain 25 years of someone's life into a couple of boxes of post. I am glad you think the news is good, but very mistaken.
It is okay though. There was nothing else that could have been done and there is nothing else that can. Thank you for asking though. If I seem a little upset, it is because I am still sick and the virus is in my lungs which makes things worse.
BTW smoking was not the cause and whoever emailed me and said they saw that I wrote - my DR. told me to smoke. He did not. He mentioned it only once to stop and left it at that, so there was a misunderstanding somewhere. I apologize for that.
Jeez, thanks for the concern (I hope it was sincere. I hardly speak of the surgeries only because of the pain and months it took from my life). I was only 18 when this all started. I was young and scared.
I did sleep with the dogs and that made it a nice Christmas for me.
I hope you had a nice Christmas too
Had the family over and got to snap a new pic of Grandson Landon ... his first Christmas! Can you tell if he's having a good time? 
