{"id":7872,"date":"2025-03-17T15:47:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T14:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=7872"},"modified":"2025-03-17T15:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T14:49:16","slug":"my-lungs-will-be-the-death-of-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/my-lungs-will-be-the-death-of-me\/","title":{"rendered":"My lungs will be the death of me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Half of Sweden has been coughing since last fall \u2013 whatever virus the aliens have release is really doing a number on us. Dry coughing is the new normal, but last week I came down with something more serious, and this past weekend has seen me violently coughing up enough lung tissue to feed a small family, and I’m so fatigued that just walking up the stairs is taxing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not as bad as back when I had Covid<\/a> but according to my sportswatch my SpO2<\/sub> dipped well below 80% some nights, and my average is hovering under 90% \u2013\u00a0during the pandemic the recommendation was to seek a hospital if you went to 92% so my blood oxygen levels are really shit. I mean, they are shit even in normal circumstances given my asthma, but this weekend was truly a giant pain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as much as I have hated<\/em> hacking and spitting all day, I can only imagine the panic if I’d become too weak to even cough up the garbage that the infection is producing in my lungs: I’d literally be drowning in it. So: despite having torn my throat raw and given my abs the most intense workout in years, I’m thankful that I’m in good enough shape to be able to cough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a side note, this ordeal got me motivated to finally read the Kurzgesagt<\/a> book Immune: A Journey into the Mysterious System That Keeps You Alive<\/a> and we truly are made up of an aweinspiring collection of mechanisms. I can recommend the book if you’re looking for an easy introduction to the human immune system \u2013 it’s accessible and pedagogical, just like their videos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Half of Sweden has been coughing since last fall \u2013 whatever virus the aliens have release is really doing a number on us. Dry coughing is the new normal, but last week I came down with something more serious, and this past weekend has seen me violently coughing up enough lung tissue to feed a small … Continue reading My lungs will be the death of me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doodles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7872"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7875,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions\/7875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}