Even more disturbingly, Dr Vreeman says, there are reports of people who have ripped their spleens and even ones of patients popping their eyeballs out of their sockets while coughing.

holy shiat!! you can't drive yourself to the emergency room after that little episode...well, not without some handy contraption, i imagine.

"Even more disturbingly, Dr Vreeman says, there are reports of people who have ripped their spleens and even ones of patients popping their eyeballs out of their sockets while coughing."

Hmm... Scary tag indeed.

/HOLY FARK I'M NEVER COUGHING AGAIN

lung biscuits anyone??

I didn't see an article, just links on the right side with bikini clad women.

I had a friend that smoked an amazing amount of weed and was always holding it in and then coughing like a maniac. He also smoked non-filter cigarettes too. Well one day his wife noticed a bump between his shoulder and his neck. She touched it and it felt like a big bubble. He went to the doctor and he had blown a hole in his lung and the air was traveling upwards!! Crazy bstard!!

your average maint. man: lung biscuits anyone??

I keep a pack right next to the traveller's digestives for an emergency.

/sounds like a scottish cookie

Le Geno Vert: your average maint. man: lung biscuits anyone??

I keep a pack right next to the traveller's digestives for an emergency.

/sounds like a scottish cookie

actually, they are the large chunks of phlegm you can cough up on the wall and finger paint with.

i prefer the pastel colored ones myself....

PC LOAD LETTER: -2 points. It went out her side, not her mouth, which mAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HER LUNG CAME OUT HER SIDE!!

And probably wouldn't have happened but for her emphysema and asthma.

"Oh yeah, the pain. It's not so bad. I hacked up some blood a couple of minutes ago and there was this pink chunk about the size of, uh... one of those little kiwifruit, but I don't feel anything missing, so I'm not too worried."

The real question is, did she cover her damn mouth?

/Pet peeve
//DNRTFA

PC LOAD LETTER: -2 points. It went out her side, not her mouth, which mAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HER LUNG CAME OUT HER SIDE!!

I laughed so hard I almost coughed up a lung.

Her boy friend was afraid to kiss her nipple after this episode. He didn't know what would pop out next.

FTFA: "It has been known for whooping cough patients to hack so forcefully their lung collapses, but rupturing one is far rarer."

More stupidity from the Daily Fail. Spontaneous pneumothorax (collapsed/ruptured lung) is quite common in patients with bullous emphysema. What is a bit unusual is that he had a herniated chest wall. And she really didn't "cough out" out her lung either. The chest wall was compromised, which will always cause the lung to collapse.

...He'll rip your lungs out Jim...

I hope the Daily Mail doesn't find out about death by pulmonary embolism.

scottydoesntknow: Give her my number. I'm always up for meeting another veteran of Yonkers.

My 1st thought too

/cannot wait for movie
//need to read book again

clipperbox: you can't drive yourself to the emergency room after that little episode...well, not without some handy contraption, i imagine.

Broktun: I hope the Daily Mail doesn't find out about death by pulmonary embolism.

If they do, they will report it as some extremely rare OMFG! happening and quote some medical "expert" as saying that he/she has never seen such a thing.

House did it!

i have actually seen a person cough up a piece of lung.

This happened once with one of our patients (aside: I worked at a state hospital during middle shift on the geriatric floor).

He had smoked all his life and worked with asbestos when he was "well", so naturally, the diagnosis of lung cancer was given to him shortly before we got him. He refused all treatment. His family decided that was his right, and wouldn't push him to get treatment.

One Saturday, we were rounding everyone up for meds and closing down the bed dorms for activities and whatnot. Because it was Saturday, we were short-staffed, so it was one of those, "Someone go back there and holler them all out." The charge nurse and I went back to get everyone up. I took the right side, she took the left side. Get halfway down the first set of dorms, when she screamed my name. I get back there, and the dude was face down in a pool of blood, with a lung hanging out of his mouth. He had literally coughed up a lung. Was the worst thing I've ever had to see.

So we called a code, only so that the doctor on duty could come down and tell the paramedics to take the body. Unfortunately, he made the "mistake" of pronouncing him dead, so the paramedics wouldn't - he was our responsibility. So the doctor left, and the supervisor, the med nurse, another aide, and myself had to get him cleaned up, wrapped up, and transported to the morgue. Which, incidentally, had not been used in YEARS because it was a well-known fact that the doctors at the hospital are NOT supposed to pronounce anyone dead.. *sigh

Anyway, long story short, I still have the occasional nightmare of Zombie Ed chasing me around with a lung hanging out. It's pretty gross.

crzybtch: I had a friend that smoked an amazing amount of weed and was always holding it in and then coughing like a maniac. He also smoked non-filter cigarettes too. Well one day his wife noticed a bump between his shoulder and his neck. She touched it and it felt like a big bubble. He went to the doctor and he had blown a hole in his lung and the air was traveling upwards!! Crazy bstard!!

my friend once burped and a cloud of smoke came out.

yeah i know, its nothing in comparison to yours but still cool story sis.

offmymeds: [classic.modernrockreview.com image 300x300]

Now when he is eying little girls with bad intent... does Aqualung have the bad intent or do the girls? If it's the girls, they're kinda asking for it.

that said, this article made me wince about 2,453 times

skullkrusher: offmymeds: [classic.modernrockreview.com image 300x300]

Now when he is eying little girls with bad intent... does Aqualung have the bad intent or do the girls?

I really couldn't say, although he's probably feeling like a dead duck, spitting out pieces of his broken luck.

scottydoesntknow: Noobian Noob: crzybtch: I had a friend that smoked an amazing amount of weed and was always holding it in and then coughing like a maniac. He also smoked non-filter cigarettes too. Well one day his wife noticed a bump between his shoulder and his neck. She touched it and it felt like a big bubble. He went to the doctor and he had blown a hole in his lung and the air was traveling upwards!! Crazy bstard!!

my friend once burped and a cloud of smoke came out.

yeah i know, its nothing in comparison to yours but still cool story sis.

That's happened to anybody that smokes a lot. My friend did it during a family dinner (this was during a time that they suspected he was smoking and kept a drug test on the dinner table to threaten him. He was tested after dinner. He did not pass).

you can also do it if you're a non smoker. Take a deep breath, full your cheeks with air and put pressure on that air from your lungs without releasing the air. Then release some air from your mouth like you were trying to blow a smoke ring (make a light "pah" sound if you don't know how). Change in pressure should show a puff of condensation. My guess is that is what happened to the cloud of smoke burp. He gone done fooled you :)

CSB: On my spring break in my sophmore year of high school,lady luck decided to endow me with both mononucleosis and pneumonia. I was coughing pretty much all hours of the day, night and day, and feeling like complete shiat. Well, at first, I was hacking up the usual mucus and whatnot. Eventually, I started hacking up dried mucus, and then, since hacking all the damn time tends to tear away the mucus linings of various passageways, I started coughing up blood clots, with mucus mixed in for fun. Absolutely horrible way to spend my spring break.

/and I got the mono from someone who had drank my water.

FeFiFoFark: ...He'll rip your lungs out Jim...

Ha, I'd like to meet his tailor...

This is awesomely horrible, and i'm surprised something like this has never happened to me. I have epic hayfever every summer or so, where my sneezes go into the triple digit decibels and the windows vibrate afterwards.
It was usual for people living around me running up and asking if i was OK, asking if i wanted to go to the ER or something.

Haven't had an X-ray or something similar yet, but i bet i have some sort of scarring on the lungs because of it.

birdistasty: This happened once with one of our patients (aside: I worked at a state hospital during middle shift on the geriatric floor).

He had smoked all his life and worked with asbestos when he was "well", so naturally, the diagnosis of lung cancer was given to him shortly before we got him. He refused all treatment. His family decided that was his right, and wouldn't push him to get treatment.

One Saturday, we were rounding everyone up for meds and closing down the bed dorms for activities and whatnot. Because it was Saturday, we were short-staffed, so it was one of those, "Someone go back there and holler them all out." The charge nurse and I went back to get everyone up. I took the right side, she took the left side. Get halfway down the first set of dorms, when she screamed my name. I get back there, and the dude was face down in a pool of blood, with a lung hanging out of his mouth. He had literally coughed up a lung. Was the worst thing I've ever had to see.

So we called a code, only so that the doctor on duty could come down and tell the paramedics to take the body. Unfortunately, he made the "mistake" of pronouncing him dead, so the paramedics wouldn't - he was our responsibility. So the doctor left, and the supervisor, the med nurse, another aide, and myself had to get him cleaned up, wrapped up, and transported to the morgue. Which, incidentally, had not been used in YEARS because it was a well-known fact that the doctors at the hospital are NOT supposed to pronounce anyone dead.. *sigh

Anyway, long story short, I still have the occasional nightmare of Zombie Ed chasing me around with a lung hanging out. It's pretty gross.

Just, wow.

I broke a rib coughing... One time I started leaking this neon yellow fluid out my nose after a cough. Never had my lungs attempt to evacuate my chest...biatch be hardcore!



Broktun: I hope the Daily Mail doesn't find out about death by pulmonary embolism.

PEs are no goddamn fun. It's like drowning in a room full of air while you desperately breath as hard and fast as you can each breath sparking off a cascade of pain, while your heart hammers in your chest and you feel like you've held your breath for way too long.

Years ago, I had an upper respiratory infection I just couldn't shake. Weeks of coughing. One morning in the shower, I coughed, heard a "POP" and went to my knees. Broke a rib.

offmymeds: skullkrusher: offmymeds: [classic.modernrockreview.com image 300x300]

Now when he is eying little girls with bad intent... does Aqualung have the bad intent or do the girls?

I really couldn't say, although he's probably feeling like a dead duck, spitting out pieces of his broken luck.

Did he gasp his raspling last breaths with deep sea diver sounds?

Wretched: offmymeds: skullkrusher: offmymeds: [classic.modernrockreview.com image 300x300]

Now when he is eying little girls with bad intent... does Aqualung have the bad intent or do the girls?

I really couldn't say, although he's probably feeling like a dead duck, spitting out pieces of his broken luck.

Did he gasp his raspling last breaths with deep sea diver sounds?

While the flowers bloomed like madness in the spring?