Josh,

Please take care....don't know how old you are, your pic looks like you are young, but in any case, taking care of your body is important.  I know now, as an old lady, that if I would have taken better care of myself when I was young, my body would have been happier now!

Don't want to be preachy though....keep us posted and my best wishes are with you.

Hi Josh, thanks for updating us, how are you feeling now? 

I must say I`m worried about you being at work and overdoing it, you certainly don`t need any pressure right now, although I can understand and admire your determination.  I don`t want to preach, just concerned for your health and well being.  Try to get as much rest as you can and do let us know how you are`re doing.  

I`m sending all very best wishes for a speedy recovery!  Take care! 

Josh, please take it easy on yourself.  Rest and get well.  Hope you have a speedy and full recovery.  

Hope you made it through the day okay Josh! Let us know how you're feeling. Just remember to take it easy for the next several days! Stay in touch...

Good luck,  Tig

Hey Josh,

I'm glad you're out of the hospital, but you shouldn't be at work. You need to be at home taking it easy! Be careful my friend, you could experience a recurrence very easily. Until you know what caused the first collapse and give that an opportunity to heal, you need to be uber careful. I took care of many young men in your current circumstance and assisted in many chest tube insertions, be cautious until that insertion site heals well.

The first act to assure oneself of a long first journey, is to not shoot yourself in the foot... Be careful Josh and keep us informed. We care about you or we wouldn't preach. I hope you know that! Good luck...

Tig

 by the way thanks you everyone for your get well wishes :)I may not respond to everthing everyone writes but even if I ONT YOU KNOW I APpreciate it :)

 or am proably concerned about what your concerened... haha wonder if I should have a beer before I cant :) just kidding I aint drinkin for at least half a year more I see my gastro December 1st to see about treatment options.. so im going to stay the course... Oregon just legalized marijauana lol I don't smoke  ... wont go into effect till July next year... but thatll bring more money for the state through taxes ... so proably a good thing... Colorado. Washington,Oregon and Washington DC .. so far....

 may smoke weed or drink but it wont be anytime soon until the dragon Is killed.... Stay the course....   great exercises in self discipline ... but at sum point ILL indulge ... 

             Anyway thanks again for your well wishes...  there are battles to be won ... remain positive :)

          a pneumothorax is a collapsed lung it happened monday at 9am and i continued to work till 12 pm... then i took a nap from 2-5 then at 5 as i was supposed to clean i went to the hospital insted and they told me i had air in between my chest wall and lung causing wrap around pain from my upper chest and back to lower back ... 

    I havent smoked a cigarette since monday using a nicotine patch waiting for my electronic cigarete in the mail will use patches in meantime ....  mine was spontaneous as my lungs are good ....

but the odds of it happening again in a year or less is higher now ... Like a crazy person i am going to work from 6am.. till 230pm today and tommorow... then get weekend off... then will resume possibly full activity by monday both jobs...

  today and tommorow i will just be sitting in a chair or walking around or i will try... I was pretty mean to the nursing staff as i was tired no nicoteen and no food... but told them it wasnt them i was mad at it was the situation... they were excellent ....  being tall and underweight increases your odds .. so does smoking ..... and or pnumonia .... 

   I am trying to press on though cause i believe ... like i preached before any major hardship you gota keep going tommorow isnt promised ... you gota also be safe and smart and not over do anything ... so ya I could breath the whole time .... it partially collapsed right lung.... ive had 2 asthma attacks and those are far worse then a collapsed lung when you cant talk or breath at all for a minuete ... those are very rare also... ... But that is indeed what is going on... on top of everything else haha ... im slightly gunshy but ILL get over it :) 

  or am trying too :)  ya that chest tube sucked felt like a blunt object being jabd between your ribs .. it was a 8 to 10 on the pain scale for a minuet of agony....

like the width of a 30 calibre bullet or bigger .... the width of your pinky finger.. glad its out :) 

I went in Monday at 5pm and got out by Wednesday at like 4pm.... and im at work on a computer in the unemployment office updating this post.... iLL proably just read books on my phone or replace lights ... very off putting by Monday iLL try to resume full activity theres leaves all over the perimeter but I will just hang out in the office next door downstairs and play games on my phone or read..... will talk to the DHS department about nicoteen patches around 2 hours from now when they get here... there free through my health cioverage just gota figure out how to prcure them haven't had a cigarette sine Monday waiting on mail for my electronic vapor device...   im a little gunshy but like I said you gota get over that at sum point and acknokledge that you can indeed die tomorrow and enjoy your life while you can :)  If I notice any pain  iLL report it faster this time .... might be bymyself tomorrow sweeping the abandoned insane asylum ... for two hours :) checking for broken windows and leaky pipes ...feeding the 5 wildcats outside... those doors lock from the inside and outside and its 3 floors ... so that would be interesting if anything happens when im bymyself...

 a collapsed lung isn't instant death a asthma attack is way worse but I got a albuterol inhaler ... so I am prepared... everyone around me thinks im stupid for even being at work right now but im not doing anything.... liker my aunt and dad ...

but my boss was leaving with his daughter on a plane so I was like you know I can either sit at home or get paid to sit.. and im needed to answer phone calls .. so well im here....Ironic this happens as im weeks away from quitting analog cigasrets... I just smirk haha with no top teeth at God and say are you serious :) like hes testing me or something .... its sighn I just gota figure out what it means ... anyway that is the inner workings of the Epsiode :) thanks for reading ....

-- Edited by Josh Haynie on Thursday 6th of November 2014 01:40:28 PM