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Originally Posted by capt_noonie  You should have seen me in ICU! I do have pics but they are pretty disturbing. I don't even look alive. But I had so many tubes in me and also a breathing tube too. |
You really scared the hell out of us! Especially when I read about the fluid in the lungs, that's when things all of a sudden started really sounding life threatening. I have thankfully never dealt with pancreatitis, but I have had fluid in the lungs due to camping at too high of an altitude for a few nights without properly acclimatizing first. And that feeling when your heart is racing 1000 beats a minute and you can't draw a proper breath, that's so scary. But of course not even close to the same situation since I knew I could save my life by getting down to lower altitude, and I did, inching my way down the mountain 10 steps at a time, then sit and rest for two minutes, then ten more steps, and so on. But I just recall another symptom I had that I didn't even think of until writing this post just now: my hands had swollen up to those of a fat man while I was dayhiking up a mountain near 13000 feet right by my campsite, which caused me to turn around and head back to the camp. As soon as I lost about three thousand feet from 11500 to 8500 hiking to the road and hitchiking to the main campsite in the area, and taking a bus down to 4000 feet it was all gone immediately though.