Blue Moon
Truth is, the game was rigged from the start.
- Dec 11, 2019
- 47
This method doesn't often get brought up, but for the sake of the collective knowledge of this board I think I'll share what happened to me.
I was extremely ill because of Crohn's Disease about 5 years ago. I weighed 95 pounds and could not keep down food very well. My doctors decided to set me up with a picc line and a machine that feeds nutrients directly into my blood stream. For those of you who don't know, a picc line is made up of medical tubing that goes in your arm that feeds directly into your heart.
To maintain my fancy cyborg augmentation I had to re dress the wound and swap out the tubing every few days. This was to prevent infection. I had help the first time by a nurse but I had to learn to do it myself after that.
Now on to the air embolism part. Being not the brightest, on two separate occasions I made the same potentally fatal error. You are supposed to run the machine empty with the new tubing plugged in to push out all the air. I did two steps in the wrong order and ended up forcing 8 feet of tubing's worth of air directly into my heart. I felt a little weird the first time but didn't really notice anything was wrong, just some minor chest pain. The second time I did it I felt more discomfort; I had worse chest pain and felt pretty light headed. I had realised my mistake and called the on call nurse about it. I told them I felt okay and didn't think I needed to go to the ER, but in hindsight it's absolutely ridiculous that they didn't tell me to go to the hospital ASAP.
If I survived so much air going into my heart twice this definitely isn't a foolproof or even viable method.
I was extremely ill because of Crohn's Disease about 5 years ago. I weighed 95 pounds and could not keep down food very well. My doctors decided to set me up with a picc line and a machine that feeds nutrients directly into my blood stream. For those of you who don't know, a picc line is made up of medical tubing that goes in your arm that feeds directly into your heart.
To maintain my fancy cyborg augmentation I had to re dress the wound and swap out the tubing every few days. This was to prevent infection. I had help the first time by a nurse but I had to learn to do it myself after that.
Now on to the air embolism part. Being not the brightest, on two separate occasions I made the same potentally fatal error. You are supposed to run the machine empty with the new tubing plugged in to push out all the air. I did two steps in the wrong order and ended up forcing 8 feet of tubing's worth of air directly into my heart. I felt a little weird the first time but didn't really notice anything was wrong, just some minor chest pain. The second time I did it I felt more discomfort; I had worse chest pain and felt pretty light headed. I had realised my mistake and called the on call nurse about it. I told them I felt okay and didn't think I needed to go to the ER, but in hindsight it's absolutely ridiculous that they didn't tell me to go to the hospital ASAP.
If I survived so much air going into my heart twice this definitely isn't a foolproof or even viable method.
