Nearly everyone has some sort of fungi in their lungs,
however, your body has neutrophils (this will be important in a few minutes) in
your whole body. The ones in your lungs keep the fungi at bay, so you’re fine.
However, if you have very compromised immune systems, for example HIV or suffer
from Neutropenia or other cytotoxic disorders, your body can’t fight it. Since
the fungi lives deep in the lungs it goes from the bottom – up (normally the
infection has to travel down). In a nut shell once you get it, the mortality
rate is 90%.
Bright-side, people won’t
get sick from me, however, I could get sick from others.So far I am in the lucky 10%!!
The doctors had been watching me closely, so when I showed
the signs I was given some treatments. They had this big costly sounding name
for it. You are put in this plastic
bubble tent, while the nurses where semi-hazmat gear. . I called it “Fumigation
for bubble girl”-which made all the nurses laugh and say “never thought of it
that way.” For nearly an hour, they fill the bubble with a concoction (like a
nebulizer but not) anyways it’s nasty tasting air (bet you didn’t know air
could TASTE bad).
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| Lego Nurse - Close Enough ;D So you are enclosed in a bubble with a nurse who is wearing
semi-hazmat gear who is taking notes for nearly an hour. I made it fun, I
turned on either Jeopardy or some similar game show and competed against the
nurse. I told him “I bet you've never been paid to play trivia games before!”
He responded “Nope, but I've paid to take examines, quizzes, and pop tests.” |
