Friday, July 10, 2009 12:11 AM
And so the story goes like this.
I had chest pains for the past 2 days. The day after swimming/table-tennis/squash. before i slept, I felt pains in the left side of my chest. I signed out from school half way the next day on wednesday. My auntie took me to the doctor that night, doctor said it could be leakage, or it could be just a muscle sprain. I had to take an x-ray. Went to eastern x-ray centre at bedok in the morning to take the x ray. Went to the doctor at 11pm again to collect the analysis and results. Confirmed that I have lung leakage. But actually, I dont even know wtf the doctor is saying. We asked him about the treatments and he said one of them is to insert a small button-like thing into the side of my lungs so that air leaks out but doesnt leak in? And another is to insert a tube to get the air out? My x-ray shows my left lung being significantly smaller than the right lung, with a column of air on top of it. And so, using inference, my guess was that there is air stuck on top of my lungs or something and its preventing my lung from expanding fully. I dont even know the cause. The doctor is a bit screwed. Like wtf. its the first time in my life I got such a serious problem. And even my father says no one in my family had ever needed to go for surgery for any illness. Except of course, my mother's pregnancy. And so the crazy docotr advised me to go to a polyclinic tomorrow morning, he says that they will take the necessary procedures if need be, to send me to hospital for surgery etc. I only hope I get a good doctor at the polyclinic so that he can tell me wtf exactly is happening to me. My father is so anxious lol. He wants me to go straight to A&E now and get the best surgeon. Told him to relax and all, and that this is not an unusual problem. Worse-case scnerario would be that this occurs again and again and I would have to take another surgery to stick my lung to its walls to prevent it from deflating. Best case would be that, after this is over, I would be back to normal and looking forward to more basketball again. Hope for the best.
My x-ray report said that I have a "left pneumothorax". I went to search about it, and got this,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumothorax. Seems so serious, hope that my case is not as serious as it sounds.
wakawaka.
