I wonder if he can get a medical marijuana permit now.

How can you collapse a lung just from *swimming*?

Did smitty read the article?

Kyosuke: Did smitty read the article?

Maybe backwards and upside down. While inhaling ;)

"I peaked that sucker"

Willie Rules.

It don't feel so bad when you're high...

FTFA: He adds, "They stick something through your back and pump the lung up, and whatever decibel your scream is, that's how they know they've penetrated the lung. I peaked that sucker."

Allow me to say this, calmly and rationally: OWWWWWWWWWIE. OW, OW, OH MY JESUS OW.

::shudders::

I call bullshiat, his lungs should be so gummed up with resin they would never collapse

subby: After 20 years of straight touring, and 60 years of smoking weed and drinking whiskey, Willie Nelson's lung collapses the minute he starts exercising

FTFY.

FTA - The singer was on tour 20 years ago when he decided he wasn't fit enough, but a sudden health routine almost killed him.

He recalls, "I just got into running - first time in I don't know how long. Then I hit the water and swam. My left lung completely collapsed. I instinctively knew what had happened and was far enough offshore to get a little concerned."


FAIL - It's not news, It's 20 years late news

xanadian: How can you collapse a lung just from *swimming*?

It turns out that your lung can collapse spontaneously. Trust me, I learned the hard way (and I second Willie's comment about pain). The EMT told me that scrawny white people are especially in danger, but he gave no reason for that.

"They stick something through your back and pump the lung up, and whatever decibel your scream is, that's how they know they've penetrated the lung. I peaked that sucker."

HOLLY SHIAT!!!! GOD I HAD NO IDEA THAT'S WHAT THEY DO!!! ARGGGGGG!!!!

Did subby actually read the article before writing the headline? I know, that is a lot to ask around Fark sometimes...

Here's hoping for a speedy recovery, Willie.

xxBirdMadGirlxx: FTFA: He adds, "They stick something through your back and pump the lung up, and whatever decibel your scream is, that's how they know they've penetrated the lung. I peaked that sucker."

Allow me to say this, calmly and rationally: OWWWWWWWWWIE. OW, OW, OH MY JESUS OW.

::shudders::

This officially qualifies as something I could have gone my entire life without knowing.

/Hopes my lung never collapses.

I had a 100% spontaneous pnemothorax; it was like being shot in the chest with a rifle. Sorry Willie - get well soon. Enjoy the morphine. Me and Paul will be thinking of you...

For some reason this reminds me of my uncle. He served two tours in Vietnam, and didn't get a scratch. He comes back and six weeks later destroys his knee playing football on base.

And a friend of mine did a couple in Iraq, didn't get hurt but breaks his leg climbing a tree while on leave.

Sorry Willie - get well soon.

Since it happened 20 years ago, I think he is probably over it.

Drummer 2008-03-27 12:59:48 PM "They stick something through your back and pump the lung up, and whatever decibel your scream is, that's how they know they've penetrated the lung. I peaked that sucker." HOLLY SHIAT!!!! GOD I HAD NO IDEA THAT'S WHAT THEY DO!!! ARGGGGGG!!!!
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I take it you've never watched house? :)

I'll tell you what caused the collapsed lung. Willie forgot to fire up his third post-breakfast pre-brunch bomber.

His system couldn't function without it.

Onkel Buck: I call bullshiat, his lungs should be so gummed up with resin they would never collapse

Wouldn't that be just the opposite? So much resin that if it did collapse they wouldn't be able to get the surfaces unstuck?

ClintBartonWannabe: Onkel Buck: I call bullshiat, his lungs should be so gummed up with resin they would never collapse

Wouldn't that be just the opposite? So much resin that if it did collapse they wouldn't be able to get the surfaces unstuck?

Oh, Lord. I just had an audio imagination of that.

Oh, my poor brain.

ClintBartonWannabe: Onkel Buck: I call bullshiat, his lungs should be so gummed up with resin they would never collapse

Wouldn't that be just the opposite? So much resin that if it did collapse they wouldn't be able to get the surfaces unstuck?

Oh, dude. The image...

/What has been seen cannot be unseen.

ClintBartonWannabe: Onkel Buck: I call bullshiat, his lungs should be so gummed up with resin they would never collapse

Wouldn't that be just the opposite? So much resin that if it did collapse they wouldn't be able to get the surfaces unstuck?

Nah, there should be enough in there that the resin has created an inner shell holding the lungs together.

Was the Ironic tag out of breath?

/puff,puff,pass.

I had an infected brown recluse bite on my ass cleaned up with scissors. No novacaine.

I screamed like a man.

I imagine the lung thing would be worse.

Aarontology: ClintBartonWannabe: Onkel Buck: I call bullshiat, his lungs should be so gummed up with resin they would never collapse

Wouldn't that be just the opposite? So much resin that if it did collapse they wouldn't be able to get the surfaces unstuck?

Nah, there should be enough in there that the resin has created an inner shell holding the lungs together.

Like Stalactites and stalagmites that have joined?

I thought this was breaking news. What's with the sad tag? It happened 20 years ago.

Blues_Fan: I had an infected brown recluse bite on my ass cleaned up with scissors. No novacaine.

I screamed like a man.

I imagine the lung thing would be worse.

They brought in about six giant nurses to hold me down when they put in the chest tube. The guy said, "this is going to hurt a lot." It did.

Bummer about the spider, man.

sarahbot

I thought this was breaking news. What's with the sad tag? It happened 20 years ago.

If you have read the link and the headline, you will realize subby either did not read the linked article or has a very low level of reading comprehension.

Though the sad tag might be due to the fact that a little exercise caused someone's lung to collapse? Like, not sad as in tissue sad...sad as in pathetic sad?

20 years ago, while touring stoned, Willie Nelson's lung collapsed...

dryknife: 20 years ago, while touring stoned, Willie Nelson's lung collapsed...

And twenty years later he's still partying, and the shiat on the Honeysuckle Rose is as good as you'll ever smoke. How's Nancy Reagan doing?

Just say know!

Drummer: "They stick something through your back and pump the lung up, and whatever decibel your scream is, that's how they know they've penetrated the lung. I peaked that sucker."

HOLLY SHIAT!!!! GOD I HAD NO IDEA THAT'S WHAT THEY DO!!! ARGGGGGG!!!!

They don't pump your lung back up, the remove the air between the lung and the pleura.

Broktun:

Ok, that makes more sense. I couldn't understand why they would want to put another hole in your lung. Thanks. Still arg!

The_Talented_Mr_Richards: It turns out that your lung can collapse spontaneously. Trust me, I learned the hard way (and I second Willie's comment about pain). The EMT told me that scrawny white people are especially in danger, but he gave no reason for that.

Mine collapsed while I was walking down some stairs in college. It feels a bit like getting stabbed in the shoulder/back area. But ya, the nurse told me it was common in tall, skinny white kids. That I am. Mine still hurts from time to time too, I think it's the scarring from the chest tube.

But no, it certainly didn't nearly kill him. And they don't stick anything in your lung, that might kill you. They let the air out around your lung, which is creating pressure and causing the lung to not 'inflate' fully. And unless they didn't drug him up, which I doubt, the test tube isn't that painful. I didn't even feel mine.

The_Talented_Mr_Richards: It turns out that your lung can collapse spontaneously. Trust me, I learned the hard way (and I second Willie's comment about pain). The EMT told me that scrawny white people are especially in danger, but he gave no reason for that.

ive had 3, all spontaneous. the first time was sweet, the only chest tubes they had at the hospital were the size of a garden hose and i was awake for it til i passed out from the pain.

DD0: And unless they didn't drug him up, which I doubt, the test tube isn't that painful. I didn't even feel mine.

i cant imagine how this is. the chest tube has been immensely painful for all 3 of mine. even when i had smaller chest tubes in the civilized hospitals.

mahavishnunj: i cant imagine how this is. the chest tube has been immensely painful for all 3 of mine. even when i had smaller chest tubes in the civilized hospitals.

Well I wouldn't say I didn't feel it, but there wasn't any yelling. I don't recall what they gave me, but it certainly helped.

srhp29: Did subby actually read the article before writing the headline? I know, that is a lot to ask around Fark sometimes...

srhp29: sarahbot

I thought this was breaking news. What's with the sad tag? It happened 20 years ago.

If you have read the link and the headline, you will realize subby either did not read the linked article or has a very low level of reading comprehension

by God, is that how you validate your existence? Pointing out that sumbitter is a retard that didnt RTFA and should DIAF, over and over in the same thread.... we got it

dont worry, you'll get over it

Right on Willie! you still can inhale!

Onkel Buck: I call bullshiat, his lungs should be so gummed up with resin they would never collapse

Actually, because Cannabis acts as an efficient cough expectorant, the resin simply does not "gum up" the lung like the tar from tobacco smoke.

When I smoked both, my lungs would often "gurgle" with a nasty buildup of tar and mucus etc. which I would cough up regularly.....when I quit tobacco I upped my Cannabis use considerably, yet within a few months had MUCH improved lung function, and even took up running and swimming, which I could have never done while smoking tobacco.

/the fact that even heavy Cannabis users tend to smoke considerably less raw material than the typical tobacco user is also significant....at my peak use a dozen years ago or so, I went through an oz. of Cannabis every two weeks. A single pack of typical tobacco cigarettes contains nearly an oz of tobacco, and the average tobacco user smokes a pack to a pack and a half per day. To put it another way, the average tobacco user smokes betwen 22 and 25 POUNDS of tobacco per year, while Willie probably doesn't smoke more than 3 to 5 pounds of weed per year tops.
//glad this was 20 years ago and not a recent occurrence

wow what a misleading headline and article.

3 G's: while Willie probably doesn't smoke more than 3 to 5 pounds of weed per year tops.
//glad this was 20 years ago and not a recent occurrence

Didn't he get pulled over last year for having like 2 pounds of pot and mushrooms in his tour van?

Weed With Willie by Toby Keith

I always heard that his herb was top shelf
And Lord I just could not wait to find out for myself
Don't knock it til' you tried it, Well I tried it my friend
I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

Now we learned a hard lesson in a small Texas town
He fired up a fat boy and he passed it around
The last words that I spoke before they tucked me in
But I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

I'll never smoke weed with Willie again
My party's all over before it began
You can pour me some old whiskey river my friend
But I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

We hopped on his old bus, the Honey Suckle Rose
The party was Huntsville, it was after the show.
Alone in the front lounge, just me and him,
I took one parting puff and the grim creeper set in.

I'll never smoke weed with Willie again
My party's all over before it began
You can pour me some old whiskey river my friend
But I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

Now we're passing the guitar, we're telling good jokes
I can tell ones a-comin' cause I'm smelling the smoke
No I do not partake, I just let it pass by
With a grin on my face and a great contact high

I'll never smoke weed with Willie again
My party's all over before it began
You can pour me some old whiskey river my friend
But I'll never smoke weed with Willie again

In the fetal position with drool on my chin
I broke down and smoked weed with Willie again

DD0: But ya, the nurse told me it was common in tall, skinny white kids. That I am. Mine still hurts from time to time too, I think it's the scarring from the chest tube.

If you're a tall, slim, male between the ages of 20 and 40 you've got a 1 in 400,000 that a lung will spontaneously collapse. Once it's reinflated the chances that it will collapse again are higher. After the 2nd time it's higher again and so on.

If it looks like you're gonna keep popping that sucker they might carry out a pleurodesis (sp?), a procedure to prevent it collapsing again.

I had the tube in the chest and I think the most freaked out people in ER were the nurses seeing me not bat an eyelid. Screaming don't help. You know it's going to hurt because they're sticking tube in your chest.

What was annoying was the second time it happened to me they decided to try and syringe the air out of the chest cavity. As it was supposed to just be a needle going in once to draw out the air they decided not to bother with anesthetic (it'd just be one needle to dull the pain of another one needle). Trouble was they couldn't get it right so they kept on sticking me to try and draw it out.

I don't understand why they can't give people something IV for the pain. They just jam chest tubes in. A lot of pain meds cause respiratory depression but not all of them...

I almost died from a spontaneous pneumothorax, and it sucked like a 40 pound breast pump. There's a lot of thing I'd rather have happen to me than go through this again.

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HURRRRRRR1

This has happened to my dad twice - once for each lung, a week in the hospital both times. The last time was 25 years ago, so he has recovered as well. And yeah, he thought he was dying when it happened.

/still hasn't given up the cigarettes though

xxBirdMadGirlxx: FTFA: He adds, "They stick something through your back and pump the lung up, and whatever decibel your scream is, that's how they know they've penetrated the lung. I peaked that sucker."

Allow me to say this, calmly and rationally: OWWWWWWWWWIE. OW, OW, OH MY JESUS OW.

::shudders::

I don't know about the inflating thing. My right lung collapsed when I had kidney stone surgery. They didn't inflate it, just gave me a goofy plastic things with a ball in it that I had to inhale thru and make the ball float.

THis happened 20 years ago. For all we know it was also under sniper fire. Willie would remember that either.