… they are wondering if it is this.  That’s essentially what I was talking about before. Of note, it says “In regard of the low incidence of (primary spontaneous, i.e. not due to surgical trauma etc.) pneumothorax in women (about 1/100′000/year)…”  blah blah… I’m wondering how I fit into that statistic, since I’ve now had 2 this year… IN the last 2 months. Yay me.  I’m going to go somewhere and finish writing a paper or something and hope my lung re-inflates.  Quickly.  I got a flight or two to take next week.  I decided to go to the doctor’s office today because I was laying on my couch, you know, focusing on the joy of breathing, while blowing my nose every couple of seconds, and suddenly I thought, oh yeah,  collapsed lung… isn’t that a contraindication for flight?? I might want to ask someone about that, as I’d surely hate to like not be able to breate at all on an airplane.  Not to be dramatic, but it would be rather unfortunate. So I asked and I’m still asking. We’ll see what they say tomorrow, but I’m sure at least ONE person is going to look at me like I just asked them to lick the bottom of my feet.  Sigh. I imagine this is how the TB dude was feeling when he thought about his plans to travel. lol  I’m sure he was like, Oh wait.. I’ve had these plans for so long! I wonder if I can go.. I’m going to ask.  And he got to his appointment, asked, and SOMEONE looked at him like, “I KNOW you must be out of your D mind! Are you serious???”  And he just starred back like, “Well yeah, we’ve got plans, and it would be real inconvenient to reschedule. So what do you say?”  Then they said something like, “Yeah, that’s probably not a good idea,” while thinking, “THIS dude can’t be serious! Of course you shouldn’t! Yeah it’s inconvenient to reschedule and you might lose a little money, but it’s not the end of the world.”  While not conveying that as strongly as they might have thought, the dude said, “Well, honey, they didn’t say NOT to, so let’s ride out.”  And then all the chaos happened.  I’m imagining a similar situation where I go in tomorrow and say, “So yeah, I got this flight on Monday, and do you think I will make it?” And someone will be thinking, “IS SHE SERIOUS?!?  WHO in their right mind would take a flight with a collapsed lung?? Don’t you know that’s a potential medical emergency?? HELLO?!?  DEATH?? DOES THAT MEAN ANYTHING TO YOU???”  And they’ll actually say, “Um yeah, I don’t think that’s a good idea.”  I’LL then think, “Well they didn’t say no,” and chaos will occur… *SIGH!!*

AHH! AHH!!