Originally Posted by
Arbolado
Three days after Christmas my wife developed a cold that morphed into pneumonia that lasted until the third week of January. On MLK day my son went to swim practice and complained of being cold when he got home. Went to urgent care the next day with a 103 fever and they said he had the flu. Missed a week of school and two weeks of training, which for him is out of the ordinary, he gets sick like the rest of us, but he usually powers through a cold/flu in two to three days. On February 2, I was at work and started to develop a sharp pain in my chest on the right side. It started to get difficulty to inhale and I thought maybe it was a gas bubble or something. I went home thinking I could sleep it off, but I didn’t, it was worse, I could hardly breathe. There were no other symptoms. I went to work, came home at 8 and told my wife I needed to lay down before I ate. The pain was so bad to lay down that I went to the urgent care. The doc said she thought I had a muscle strain since I had no other symptoms, but she ordered a chest X-ray. Two days later the radiologist called and said I had fluid on my lung and to get to the doctor. My GP was flummoxed since I had no other symptoms. I shared about my wife and my son and he said “but you haven’t had any other symptoms”. He ordered a CT scan with dye and without. The results came back that the fluid was gone, but I had scar tissue on my right lung in the lower section. The pain has gone away, but every now and then I get a sharp pain there. A week after the CT scan I got a snotty nose, but that was it and it was gone in three days.