Coughed up a lung. RIP.
Ruptured pulmonary artery?
I’d have thought he’d have bled out on the spot if he’d have horked that up.........................
Illegal invader with TB or pneumonia.
Just a guess.
Huh, clear, even green is better.
Black is always bad.
I sure hope they’re getting a damn good look at all the pathogens in this dead body.
And let’s hope it’s not some kind of Ebola hybrid.
Even the docs never saw anything like that before...without cutting somebody open.
Still remember the aftermath of my surgery to correct a deviated septum and old broken nose debris. The blood boogers were impressive, and painful as heck to get out.
RIP.
This is something you’d expect to read about in some dirt poor banana republic like Ustinkistan.
Once I had a child whom I did an anesthetic on for tonsillectomy. In the recovery room, he looked ok but had a low-grade cough over the couple of hours he was there. Oxygenation was fine.
Next thing I know, he hacks up this cast of his right tracheobronchial tree, though not as perfect and glorious as the arboreal-looking bright red loogie shown in the case report.
It was Providential because it was then obvious that there was still a substantial tonsillar bed bleed going on—- back to the OR he went and after hemostasis he did very well.
We were all very lucky because there was not much bleeding evident on exam of the pharynx.
Thank God for his presentation and the cast uncovering the occult bleeding.
What wonders hath open borders brought!
My God, how in the world could THAT come out intact like that? This is so weird.
Very cool. I love casts.
Prayer to St. Joseph for a Happy Death
O Glorious St. Joseph, behold, I choose thee today for my special patron in life and at the hour of my death. Preserve and increase in me the spirit of prayer and fervor in the service of God. Remove far from me every kind of sin; obtain for me that my death may not come upon me unawares, but that I may have time to confess my sins sacramentally and to bewail them with a most perfect understanding and a most sincere and perfect contrition, in order that I may breathe forth my soul into the hands of Jesus and Mary. Amen
That must have been extremely painful and frightening. Suffocating until you have a heart attack is a rough way to go, RIP. But the clot sure is cool.
Breathing that smoke free California air.
[Note to self: if a big clot reaches the lung, cough harder...real hard!] ;-)
Looks like a cast of the bronchi to the right middle lobe and right lower lobe.