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Originally posted by Sly_RJ
Mom just emails me, she just got back from the hospital (it's like 1 in the morning in Illinois.) Apparently she took my little brother to the ER because he was hacking up blood in the shower.
Turns out he has a small spot of pneumonia in one lung and a "lung absess" in his other lung. He was at camp all week and probably exhausted himself running around like the nut that he is. He's pumped full of drugs right now and is being his typical smart ass self (unfortunately he takes after me) so he'll be fine after a couple days.
But my question is, what the hell is a lung absess? I'm off to Google it now...
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Not sure about the abscess part, but I wanted to tell you about something just in case.
My mom & dad's best friends have a son that's about 13 or 14. Last summer he went to some kind of camp out in the woods someplace. When he got back, the same thing happened. Coughing, blood, felt really shitty. The doctors told him it was pneumonia and put him on antibiotics.
It didn't get better and he actually started feeling worse. He eventually spiked a really high fever in the middle of the night and they had to rush him back to the ER. The docs there decided to send him an hour away to the big Children's Hospital in our state.
A ton of tests, xrays, and MRIs later they figured out that he had some sort of fungus or mold in his lungs. They had to culture it to figure out exactly what drugs to get rid of it. Apparently, it's sort of a common thing with kids who live near woods or spend time in the woods.
May be totally unrelated to your brother, but if he doesn't seem to get better you might share it with your mom.