OMG, another attack of Pneumothorax?

Hope NOT!!

Check out my previous stories about Pneumothorax..

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So get urself a treat at McD now!

lol

so, i went this morning..

“Mr Prashant Joshi, MBBS, MS (Gen Surgery),DNB, M.Ch. (Cardiothoracic Surgery)” From SGH Homepage

Blue arrow is Dr Joshi lo.. RED arrow.. my Dean.. haha.. Looks like la.. not sure..

Ok, finish introducing the head of department, then the story goes..

went there at 9.30am.. went around the hospital 2 rounds!! Ke Kiang, assuming i know d place.. then walk walk.. ask ask… then 2 rounds..

reached there den straight go counter.. privilege ma.. with the medical student name tag.. lol.. abusing power..

Ok, told the nurse.. she said he’s not in.. WTH?

so wait lo.. he’s rounding the ward.. no choice..

10am, finally saw him.. warm welcome by him, straight shake hands with me.. saying ” I’ll meet u in 10 min”.

Wow, another 10 min.. ok.. so many patients ma..

actually i do not have refer letter.. just that Dr Htaik made appointment for me with him..

so met him up finally..

He said:

1. Your Penumothorax is ok now..
2. You’re normal
3. You can do anything as usual
4. You can exercise
5. You can lead a normal life

AND.. finally..

IF you have another pneumothorax, you come back and find me, i do VATS for you..

WTH? everything normal then lastly said if recur again then VATS.. must be not normal la? straight surgery wo..

VATS= Video Assisted Thoracoscopy surgery

Surgery, minor one.. half an hour he said..

OK, pray not to recur Again!

although had recur 5 times..

Dr Thung Htaik just sms me telling me that my appointment with Dr Joshi will be on Wednesday’s morning.. Hope everything will be fine.

Just in case u do not know what the heck pneumothorax is, click below to find out more..

1. What is that?
2. The Treatment
3. Recurrence
4. HRCT (CT Scan)

scared kena sue >.<|||

I was referred by Dr. Htaik to Dr. Joshi, Head of Department of Cardio Thoracic Surgery Department, SGH.. i was like being referred 4-5 times..

As long as i can get this SP done, i dont care being referred even up to 100 times.. lol

i have to wait another few more days to be able to meet this super busy Dr.

Inspiration or expiration.. dunno which.. can see from picture.. too blur.. but important thing is at first small pic.. u can see the black spot on left compared to the right side which is absent.. the black spot is pneumothorax.. shouldnt have the black spot there..

the continuity of the previous scan..

this scan is actually taking full picture of your lung and cut it into section by computerized program.. so u can see the detail part of your lung..

no other significant findings except the small pneumothorax at apical (upper) part of lung.. so still dunno what’s the cause of it.

summary of all images into 1..

He said we cannot do VATS without finding the culprit.. VATS is higher risk so they cannot simply do.. as he said.. so we’ll see after my CNY break.. lol

he said we cannot do VATS because of pneumothorax as to put in talc or watever.. we have to do VATS because XXX in ur lung is causing pneumothorax and we do VATS to remove or watever XXX.. most probably is a bulla
Happy CNY anyway..

And.. SP has no medicine.. either u suffer the pain doing nothing or u go for surgery.. even u take pain killer, it does not kill the underlying causes as well..

so.. beware for those thin, tall young adults..

when u feel pain on both sides, front n back,when u feel something  is moving inside ur chest, ah ha, go for X-ray…

X-ray’s radiation is way way lower than CT scan.. so don worry for getting a chest cancer