Deep Breathing

I have been experiencing left-sided chest pain for over 24 hours. It really started to bother me yesterday - each time I tried to take a deep breath, I had sharp knife-like pains in my left upper chest, just under the clavicle (collar bone). By this morning, the pain had gotten worse and I was becoming very concerned. I asked Marlin to take me to the emergency department at the local hospital. I was sure it wasn't heart pain (I'm a nurse, remember, I know these things), but of course, all the cardiac tests had to be done to make sure it wasn't my heart. I had a chest x-ray, too. All my blood tests were "normal" and the ECG (heart tracing) was better than the last time I had one! The chest x-ray didn't show pneumonia or a collapsed lung (good thing), so by the process of elimination - and by my symptoms, it was decided I had pleurisy. Pleurisy is an inflammation of the lining of the lung, and each time you try to take a deep breath, the lining stretches and causes pain. So I must take pain pills and anti-inflammatory drugs (ibuprophen) for about 5 days, until symptoms abate.
I am home - resting - and reading the pile of cards I got in today's mail.
Thank you all!
Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and formed a man from it. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nose and the man became a living person. Genesis 2:7

Love to you -
Ellen