Quote Originally Posted by klar View Post
Gaah. Went for a checkup and doctor did another xray. Refused to let me go home, had to get an ambulance ride to the hospital. Apparently I have a beginning pneumothorax (?). Not bad enough to stick a tube in my lung but I have to stay in here until it either goes away on its own or they change their mind. I can breath fine, I can work the spirometer fine, I really don't like being in the hospital.
4 days out from your rib injury and you have a pneumothorax (lets call it a ptx) too small for a tube--generally no big deal. Hope you're home by now.