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maryjane
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JAN 13, 11:39 AM
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Synthesis
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JAN 13, 11:41 AM
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Mine was a smaller version of that, close to the end of the "tree" if you will, and much darker... And I am horrified I'll have more.
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GTGeff
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JAN 13, 02:42 PM
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Patrick
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JAN 13, 04:31 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Synthesis:
Coughed up another clot, smaller in size... Breathing got better.
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Damn.
It's no wonder you've been feeling "fatigued" when it turns out you've got these clots in your lungs. Your O2 absorption is no doubt less than ideal. I suppose though it's good to be coughing them up (and out of your lungs). Let's just hope that new ones aren't being developed.
I remember as a kid, when I'd get asthma (and then often be sick in bed for a week or two with subsequent lung infections), that I knew I'd turned the corner when I'd start coughing up almost solid chunks of dark crap from my lungs. Not among my most favorite childhood memories. 
Keep battling, Chris. You'll beat this thing.[This message has been edited by Patrick (edited 01-13-2021).]
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2.5
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JAN 13, 04:57 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Synthesis:
Still feeling fatigued with general achiness that ibuprofen won't touch. Went into the ER the night after the clot came up due to pain in the chest again. Coughed up another clot, smaller in size... Breathing got better. Still old blood in the clot, back on blood thinners. |
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Prayers for full recovery as soon as possible.
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maryjane
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JAN 14, 10:49 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by 2.5:
Prayers for full recovery as soon as possible. |
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X2!!
But along the lines regarding the clots...
This is one of the things that the 'deniers' that keep claiming it has such a high survival rate don't take in to account. Yes, most people certainly live thru it, but sometimes, at a pretty difficult cost, and I'm not talking about (just) money.
| quote | A Texas trauma surgeon says it's rare that X-rays from any of her COVID-19 patients come back without dense scarring. Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall tweeted that, "Post-COVID lungs look worse than any type of terrible smoker's lung we've ever seen. And they collapse. And they clot off. And the shortness of breath lingers on... & on... & on."
"Everyone's just so worried about the mortality thing and that's terrible and it's awful," she told CBS Dallas. "But man, for all the survivors and the people who have tested positive this is -- it's going to be a problem. Bankhead-Kendall, an assistant professor of surgery with Texas Tech University, in Lubbock, says patients who've had COVID-19 symptoms show a severe chest X-ray every time, and those who were asymptomatic show a severe chest X-ray 70 to 80% of the time.
"There are still people who say 'I'm fine. I don't have any issues,' and you pull up their chest X-ray and they absolutely have a bad chest X-ray," she said.
In this photo of a normal lung, smoker's lung and a COVID-19 lung that Dr. Bankhead-Kendall shared with CBS Dallas, the healthy lungs are clean with a lot of black, which is mainly air. In the smoker's lung, white lines are indicative of scarring and congestion -- while the COVID lung is filled with white.
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She adds, "There is no long-term implication of a vaccine that could ever be as bad as the long-term implications of COVID."" |
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You can read the whole thing for yourselves.
https://www.cbsnews.com/new...-lungs-surgeon-says/
and more:
https://www.cbsnews.com/new...s-symptoms-recovery/[This message has been edited by maryjane (edited 01-14-2021).]
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