Lung~ma for Tim! That does sound pretty bizarre. I've always heard of pneumothoraces as caused by stab and gun shot wounds. No idea they could be spontaneous.

I am currently doing laundry and it is not fucking great. I locked myself out of my condo for the second time in a week. Good thing my roommate sleeps with her window open. Oh, and I wash everything in warm separated by light/dark, line dry anything that says it needs it.

I was standing next to a dog on the subway tonight, and I don't think it was a service dog. If it was, it was poorly trained. It ended up laying its head on my foot, which I actually thought was kind of sweet, but can imagine many MANY people not appreciating!

My neighbour has a service dog, and he likes to jump up on me. That may be mainly when he's off duty, but it's happened a couple of times at the bus stop. He is a lab, so it's not like I was surprised.

Steph, almost every time I have an anxiety/stress situation, I crash and get terrible headache. Take care.

Yeah, this was maybe a lab or something. Some kind of shaggy big dog. Hard to tell because we were so jammed together in the subway! And also I'm not that crazy about dogs.

Service dogs can be for spotting seizures or other things that unlike guide dogs don't necessarily require that kind of total focus. For everyone's sake they should be well trained, but do sometimes act more like pets.

How does air get out of the lung into the cavity? Does the lung spring a leak?

The lung does spring a leak. According to Dr Google, small air blisters with the unlikely name of blebs can form on the lung, and sometimes they burst, allowing air to leak. This doesn't sound like intelligent design to me.

Hil, my arthritis sometimes attacks fingers that way. Do the joints feel warm?

Mr Peabody would be an excellent service dog, if the service was to keep people away from me by biting them on the ankles. I understand nipping at the ankles is a corgi trait, and I have a friend who likes to imagine the Queen's herd of corgis nipping at all available ankles, while the possessors of said ankles try to pretend that nothing happened.

The official medical term for Tim's collapsed lung is "spontaneous pneumothorax," which is metal as HELL.

tell him next time to go for exploding into blue confetti instead. Less traumatizing / more amusing to loved ones.

Love to you both and much ~ma for continued re-inflation.

Service dogs can be for spotting seizures or other things that unlike guide dogs don't necessarily require that kind of total focus. For everyone's sake they should be well trained, but do sometimes act more like pets.

Huh.

ION, I have a happy, purring cat on my lap. This seems to happen a lot.

the Queen's herd of corgis

That reminds me of a show I saw on Windsor Castle. The Warden of the Castle has a black lab, and he was talking about one of the other high officials that lives in the Castle, who said "Everyone important here has a black lab, it seems." To which the Warden replied, "No, everyone important has corgis."

Hil, my arthritis sometimes attacks fingers that way. Do the joints feel warm?

Yeah. I took some pain meds, and it's feeling somewhat better. It's not actually the joints in my fingers that are swollen, but the ones in my hands.

I know enough people who own "service dog" coats whose dogs have no service training whatsoever, that I just assume that any service dog that acts like a pet out for a walk with its person, instead of a trained dog providing a service, is actually just that. That said, I don't think it's my business to get all bothered by that, especially since brenda's right, they might well be providing a service that isn't clearly apparent to me.