I haven’t even been a nurse for a year. People are leaving in droves being replaced by travelers, and now I fully understand why.
When I was on the phone with my manager on my floor gasping for breath, all she kept repeating is it’s policy. It’s policy. If you call out you’re fired. Oh and also if you get to work and are too sick to do your job/forced to go home or the ED, it will be considered a call out and you’ll be fired. No, you can’t take your breathing treatments at work. You will get written up and fired.
She sounded like a robot. Not even human, no empathy. Literally saying that “your lung better be uncollapsed by the time you get to work, and you’re not allowed to take care of it at work although there are limitless medical supplies, and you can’t collapse and get medical treatment, for no fucking reason other than I’m a bitch”.
No worries, my co workers and RT were more than happy to allow me to take treatments. RT even brought me meds although I had my own, and checked on me. My co workers and a random, kind RT showed me more compassion than a manager who is supposed to care for the entire unit.
And scanning the policy, this isn’t against the rules. I think I’ll have to buy out my contract. I have a chronic illness - this is absurd.
Edit: I’m not arguing my medical diagnosis here. My physician’s records and reports are what will be presented during my case, and he diagnosed me with atelectasis resulting in a complete collapsed lung. My employer can argue with my doctor’s diagnosis if they’d like.
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since his injury vs. Boston, the Blazers have lost to the Clippers, Warriors, Timberwolves, and now the Suns. dropping to 11-17 and tied with the Kings for the 10th seed
with CJ out indefinitely. what moves should they make?
https://www.insider.com/astroworld-lawsuit-says-concertgoers-lung-collapsed-two-weeks-later-2021-11
He’s currently in the hospital with a tube in his chest, trying to reinflate his lung, and avoid permanent lung damage.
What’s crazy is that this happened AFTER he got back home to Colorado and complained of bubbling in his chest to his high school nurse, and they took him to the ER. He’s now suing Scott and the organizers for a million bucks, which honestly might cover his medical bills 😞
Hi there, I went to A&E yesterday because I had unbearable pain in my back and ribs. Turns out I have a collapsed lung from using my binder. My doctor told me this will just get better on its own but I’ll need to see a respiratory team in the coming weeks. I’m planning to get surgery in 3 months and I’m really worried this is going to affect it. Will my surgeon have problems because of my lung/rib damage? Part of me doesn’t even want to tell him in case I’m not able to get top surgery now. Has this happened to anyone else or does anyone have any advice? Unfortunately it’s a paradox because I need surgery so I don’t have to bind anymore, but if I can’t get surgery I’ll need to keep binding and possibly do more damage to the lung
Our 24 week baby had his PDA closed and now has a collapsed lung and is on nitric. How do they fix a collapsed lung? Has anyone had a similar thing happen?
Hi Drs,
My aunt has been in the ICU with Covid ARDS complications since mid-November and I’m looking for some honest insight to possible outcomes as she is now.
Misinformation is deadly, and my aunt fell down the rabbit hole and refused a vaccine. She was seeing a naturopath who told her regular turmeric supplements and other vitamins would give her more protection against Covid than any vaccine. Absolutely mind boggling, but here we are.
Patient: Female, mid- 50s. Generally fine health, breast cancer survivor. Hospitalized 11/20 with Covid ARDS. Placed on mechanical vent on 11/25. Soon after, she was placed on ECMO and dialysis. Two weeks ago her vitals crashed and they instituted cardiac bypass with the ECMO (this was relayed second hand, I’m not sure if the terminology is correct on this point. Please share with me the correct function if you know). A day later, she had a lung collapse and a chest tube placed. Her vent was upgraded to a tracheotomy. She’s is on max settings with little improvement.
She’s obviously as sick as she could be. In your understanding, I’d appreciate insight into what her most likely outcomes are. I consider myself well read and have enjoyed reading med journals since college - I know the likelihood of her not surviving are high. I guess I wonder if she’s on life support, is it possible her family would have to make a decision to remove that and let her pass? Or patients who are this severely ill, do they more likely pass after crashing and aren’t able to be resuscitated? Anecdotally, is it even heard of for a patient to survive with this many setbacks?
Obviously I am hoping and praying for a miracle, but I can’t help but be a realist given the circumstances. Thank you for sharing your thoughts.
I might have to be hospitalized for a collapsed lung and that typically involves an extended hospital stay (I know from experience, its happened to me before but this was before I started drinking daily) and I'm worried about withdrawing while there. My last experience with collapsed lung involved extreme pain and discomfort so withdrawing on top of that sounds like a literal nightmare that just gives me dread just thinking about it. I drink 5 shots a night of Vodka and have been doing this for around 3 years, maybe 4 now.
Before freaking out too much, my pulmonogist found that that I suffered from this to a minor degree back in 2016, and that Covid had made it worse. Not caused entirely by covid, but is making this long covid journey more fun and interesting. (/s)
I just finished a consultation with a pulmonogist due to covid talked breathing issues. Just got over a minor cold that kicked into a flair. O2 in the high 80's to low 90's, hit up the ER for a chest x-ray to rule out pneumonia.
This explains the popping noises I hear when exhale. And maybe why I back slide from recover so easily. Not that long covid is ever easy or fun.
And lots more tests in my immediate future. Woo-hoo.
More annoyingly he told me to start walking a half hour every day. And just how am I supposed to do that when long covid is kicking my rear?
Initially had covid the first week of November 2020. Like clockwork, on day 10 of symptoms I woke up unable to breathe easily. I went to urgent care, and was told it progressed to pneumonia after getting X-rays. I reacted badly to antibiotics, so I was put on a longer course of steroids. I wasn’t getting better 3 weeks later, and went to the emergency room. A respiratory panel done showed that my pneumonia was caused by S. Pneumoniae, so abx were needed. We tried a different antibiotic. I couldn’t hold that one down. So we had to stop that as well. Finally, tried Levaquin. That one worked, and I started feeling better soon after. I never recovered to 100%, maybe around 60% at most. Was always told that was normal after pneumonia and that I just needed to wait it out.
1 month later, I’m feeling much better. Still having some breathing issues and my heart rate was always too high, and I would get dizzy easily. Again told that was normal during recovery from covid and pneumonia. But one day, I started wheezing and coughing again. I ran a fever. Then I went back to urgent care (it’s mid January 2021), they do another X-ray. Left lower lobe pneumonia. And a sinus infection. I go through another round of Levaquin and two rounds of Medrol. Three weeks later, I’m still having some slight breathing problems, dizziness and high heart rate. It persists, so in mid March I went to see a pulmonologist, who runs pulmonary function tests and tells me that I have borderline COPD, but my FEV1/FVC ratio was too high to diagnose me officially. He differentiated to asthma instead, and puts me on Singulair and Symbicort 160. They help a bit, but I still can’t exercise. I used to be able to deadlift 225lbs (that’s a lot for a 5’1 115lb woman), but four months later I can’t do a single bodyweight squat.
I start feeling dizzier and more lightheaded as the weeks go by. My heart rate also seems to still be too high. Then I passed out one day, after a dizzy spell that made me nauseous and caused me to throw up. I passed out next to the toilet. Later that day, I made an appointment with my primary doctor. I see her the next week, and she sends me to a cardiologist.
Mid April, I see my cardiologist for the first time. It was an easy visit, and she specializes in autonomic disorders, so I walked out of there with a diagnosis of POTS after doing a tilt table test and a script for beta blockers, compression socks, and lots of salt.
The summer is pretty uneventful, but my lungs are
... keep reading on reddit ➡I’m looking to get back into saxophone after years. I had a spontaneous collapsed lung in high school and I stopped playing after that. My collapsed lung was likely unrelated to playing the saxophone and more likely to related to being tall and thin. I was just wondering if anybody has had experience with a collapsed lung and if playing the saxophone caused them to have more collapsed lungs.
Friend at work told me he knows of someone who got collapsed lungs from smoking stiiizy carts.... Is that even possible?!!
17F, 5’7’’, 122 lbs
I’m a musician working on an album which is very special to me. In December 2020 I fractured 3 ribs and collapsed both my lungs. I was put in the ICU, where I had surgeries to insert 3 chest tubes. One month after I was walking around (reluctantly). It all got better over time though, and the last symptom to go away was pain taking a deep breath (I stopped feeling it some time in the spring).
So I tried to continue work on my album. I realized immediately that my voice was compleeeetely messed up. I felt this cracking and tightness in ranges where I have never previously had problems. It was the same way all through the summer and the fall until a week ago when I SUDDENLY felt my voice “come back.” But I’m realizing it still doesn’t feel right. When I listen to my older recordings, songs I wrote pre-lung-smush, I can just hear it’s not the same.
Some people have told me it just “happens sometimes” to your voice and that it should resolve itself if I sing a lot, etc, but I’m sure it’s related to my lung injuries.
So basically, I need to know what I can do. And I have no idea if this is a question I should be asking a doctor or a voice teacher, so any input much appreciated. Thank ya!!
