coughing up blood: classic or dud?

I'd stayed out all night in glasgow and was feeling sort of stale by morningtime and the first snow of the year had just fallen and I was walking to the station and coughing and then coughed up a bunch of blood into the snow. I was OK, though.

went to see an old friend from KANADA and then went to death disco - friend is a chain smoker, worse than me, yeah, it's got to be smoking, my throat is raw.

i hardly drink or do much else.

Wish you all the best tho!

Cut down on the smoking, man, that shit is no good for you!

Coughing up blood on persons you're attracted to in middle of quality conversation: DUD

Classic!

actually... dud. i only did this once and it was awful.

is this why doomie stopped posting? :(((((((((

:D

:S

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If you are in a movie and you do this yr so gonna buy the farm in the next five minutes. TB ex machina.

after i quit smoking i spent a couple months hacking up tar. so nasty.

about a mouthful of bloody phlegm every 30 mins, final twist in the nasty flu/virus ive been suffering from this past ten days.

have had sharp pain under the ribs on the right side since 4am, presumably whatever ive done/torn with the coughing is down there somewhere.

I'll survive, right......RIGHT?

go to the doctor

^ go to the doctor

:( Dr is expensive and will take hours today....

I don't care if it's expensive, if you are coughing up blood, you SEE A DOCTOR

Sorry, I'm a pulm nurse and that is not normal or good.

I had a pt once in the hospital who was coughing up blood but didn't know it. I was busy that night and got to his room and saw his sputum and said, "wait, how long has this been pink?" He didn't know because he was color blind. ARGH

Contacted the medical service, don't know what happened after that because my shift was over. But I'm pretty sure he went to ICU after that.

It might not be terrible but it's *definitely* not something you just let go.

ok ok sheesh!

can't disregard that deems, unless you have been drinking blood recently

If you've been coughing a lot you could have a minor rib fracture. I and another person I know have gotten them when suffering from bronchitis. Never coughed up blood, though.

Rib injuries are the worst, I tore an intercostal muscle a few years ago and it fucked me up for weeks. Still get slight chest pains when it's cold, and sometimes find myself grabbing my right breast whenever I sneeze as I had to when I was recovering to give the muscle support & prevent extra damage

be well deems

Hope it really is nothing, but I'm glad you're checking it out!

docs callin out to me. been racked with spasms all down right side since. rip kiss mother 4me

spasms sound like filthy bad luck. get well, deems.

bad news now unable to walk unaided or talk very well due to reduced lung capacity and pain

good news ive got my own room at this hospital so sat night boors might not overly bother me

eek!

best wishes dmac

:/ gws, karmic balance for harry kane had to strike a spurs fan

be sure to order the snort of whisky to help you sleep and charge it up against National Health's tab. may as well get your money's worth.

I tasted a ten year glenmorangie the last night under the influence of this virus and it was vile vile vile, truly when a man hasn't his health he has nothing

yeah ive wasted good liquor with the flu before, might as well keep a bottle of turps in the cupboard for all the difference it makes

get well soon deems

Hope you're feeling better soon, Darragh. They can do wonderful things for tuberculosis these days.

dmac I am v happy you went to the doctor and wish you a speedy recovery

Good grief! it sounds like you have been through the wars today, get yourself better dmac - whatever it takes.

thanks man, thanks all. I'm glad the internet and 1 gf forced me into it too I guess.

Get Well Soon!

Yikes, get well soon d!

what's the chest version of hepatic I smell a xover sitcom

blatantly untrue btw I can smell nothin

thoracic park?

I miss a hoy hoy now he'd have been all over a cm pairing of that name

This sounds like a bad life 'hack' (because yr hacking your lungs out, get it)

ur the hack.

u

In Ireland, chest beats u

darraghlveoli-ack!

laughing rly hurts atm but tbh I'm p safe in this company

pneumonia. feel v steampunk!

My uncle had that a while ago and, though it took some time to get over, he's suffered no ill effects. A fitter, younger man like yrself will be grand. Get well soon and take care of yourself.

:-(

I had viral pneumonia & pleurisy when I was 15 or so, it was unpleasant. Hope you get some good drugs at least, or they let you stay up and play video games or whatever.

deems la you will be fine in a few weeks trus

good work from ilx and sara especially though, hope when the server bill needs paying you will cough up blud

kind of relieving to come in at the end of this drama with the diagnosis already sorted, get well soon d

:( sounds awful, get well soon. i hope you fp'ed your lungs for this.

had me worried with the "unable to walk unaided or talk" there. glad you've got a diagnosis & seem to be in good, pun-grading spirits.

klebsiella? i hardly knew her.

get well soon, dude

Glad you got a diagnosis and only wish that you were somehow magically in the US so I could bring you ice creams to your hospital room!

Pneumonia? idgi, how does memory loss make you cough up blood?

nakh that was awful

I got icrecream sara :)

ive never been to hospital before its quite pleasant aside from the illness I'm a good patient or so I'm told

like nv, glad to only discover this thread after the diagnosis - glad it's "only" pneumonia!

guilty lolz @
"wait, how long has this been pink?" He didn't know because he was color blind.

deems ✓

they've moved me into a ward it just became a lot less pleasant but I shall abide

have they said how long they expect you to be in hospital

not rly, they may even row back on diagnosis to an infection or a rupture so idk. talk of Tuesday but I rly hope to walk out tomorrow not too poor or traumatised by the malicious lookin aul vultures that are currently circling my belongings

lol

bitching about your neighbours even at death's door

ha but srsly I'll be strangled for my copy of slaughterhouse 5 whatta woild whatta woild

I got dibs on the ipad

I left that at home but tbrr thats only five mins away and therefore as likely to be nicked by one of these lads tonight as anything ive on my locker

Hey dm when it comes to Vonnegut I always found Cat's Cradle my choice comfort read, I read it 3 times and one of the times was when I shattered my ankle and was in hospital to get it pinned. After the operation I got cellulitus (sp? it's a blood infection) and was put in a room because they were concerned it might have been MRSA, I was really pissed when they sent me out into the pleb ward again!

Party in the pleb ward tonight! The darraghmac will make you jump jump!

I got icrecream sara :)

Whew! I was worried there. ;)

guilty lolz @
"wait, how long has this been pink?" He didn't know because he was color blind.

Oh believe me, nursing is allllll about the guilty lolz

get well soon, deems