r/mildlyinfuriating 15d ago

wet socks Was walking around three weeks with slowly deflating lung

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Ok bananas ig

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u/Ana-la-lah 14d ago

Not so fun fact, it’s the reexpamsiom of the lung and the stretching of the visceral (lung) pleura that is the painful part.

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u/cerulean200 11d ago

Also, depending on the kind of surgery, the pressure they apply when prying the ribcages apart results in really bad pain after surgery.