The Other Half
I sat on a &quot;weird pain&quot; in my chest for a few days. Basically it was uncomfortable to sleep on my left side, and I felt a bit short of breath. Turns out I was suffering from a <i>double pulmonary embolism</i>, and that the only reason I wasn&#x27;t doubled over in pain is because by an odd fluke of nature, the interior of the lungs do not have nerve endings (only the exterior) and had I waited any longer <i>I could have died.</i> At that point, a third of both of my lungs was basically gone already. And so, I ended up having to stay for an entire week in the hospital while they dripped anticoagulants into me. If my girlfriend hadn&#x27;t strongly encouraged me to call my doctor... Who knows.<p>Guys&#x2F;gals... If there&#x27;s any unusual pain in your chest cavity <i>at all,</i> just drop whatever it is you&#x27;re doing and get it checked out. It might not even seem that bad at the time... it didn&#x27;t to me and it didn&#x27;t to Jason Scott... just do it.