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Originally Posted by w1cked
I took your advice and found http://www.usapa.army.mil/pdffiles/r40%5F501.pdf.
It says that if it has been treated 3 years before I get examined, I am in the clear. Oh, and TR, I read the other post. I don't think my case will be like that. Once you get surgery for the collapsed lung, there is no chance it will ever come back on its own. |
That is an incorrect statement....once operated on, there are significant intra-thoracic adhesions and a large acceleration/deceleration movement/injury may lacerate the lung tissue since it now has a 'fixed' point, i.e., the adhesion.
Be brave,be bold, but don't be ignorant of the potential risks in your future. Scar tissue IS AT BEST only 80-maybe 90% as strong as uninjured tissue...so if your surgeon or buddies told you that mis-information of 'no chance it will come back' than you better find new people to get better info from.
ss
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(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
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