scary f**king morning yesterday

so i woke up yesterday morning (5 days post op acl) sweating, chills, coughing, and some pains in the right side of my chest, shortness of breath.
i got up, took a hot shower and my morning ibuprophen hoping to work things out. still didnt feel good after the shower. i remembered the talk about possible complications and the discussion of pulmonary embolism. figured i would check out the symptoms online.

i think i had about 8 out of 10 so decided to go to the emergency room. after about 4 hours of blood tests, x-rays, cat scan and god knows what else. turns out no pe.

i was really surprised by that, but a huge relief. i was put fully under for my surgery and doogie (my floods wearing twenty something er doc) thought the chest pains were probably caused by collapsed bronchi (or howerver you spell that) from the anesthesia and gave me a breathing thingy where you breath in and try to raise the ball. after some work with that the chest pains are dimished and i feel better.

huge relief. and had both my mother and mother in law freaking out all day.

Oooh!! Scary!! Glad to hear it was nothing....

Maybe it was the old '96er and 32oz of garlic mash you had the night before.

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Originally Posted by bio-smear

Maybe it was the old '96er and 32oz of garlic mash you had the night before.

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haha
dang that does sound like it would give you chest pains!

PEs are scary. I had one in the hospital some years back. Docs missed it in an MRI. My Dad, a hemotologist, thought I seemed awfully irritable so he insisted upon a second MRI. Oh, there it is, a PE in the right lung.

8 months of cumadin later I was in the clear. But that shit is scary (and the lung rehab is a pain). Glad to hear you dodged that bullet.