A Caterpillar Moving Inside My Lungs | A 1 in 100 Million Medical History - Tuberculosis Edition (4)

Continuing with the lung lavage (bronchoscopy).

Machines attached all over my body

I got on the examination table and had various machines attached to my body.

・A pulse oximeter on my fingertip.
・A blood pressure cuff on the other side.
・An electrocardiogram check on my body.

With so many things attached, my anxiety grew about what they were going to do (even though I knew a tube was going in).

At that moment,

“Some observers will be joining us today, is that alright?”

I was asked.

(...Huh? You're telling me now?)

While thinking that, for the sake of the future doctors,
I decided to let them watch.

Is a caterpillar moving inside my body!?

Finally, the tube went in.

......It's painful!
It wasn't so much like drowning, but the gagging was tough.


Once it passed through my throat, it just felt uncomfortable.

The anesthesia was only around my throat.
The procedure continued while I was in a state where “my ears could hear.”


Being able to hear what they were saying
would later make me even more pale.


They were checking my right and left lungs,
and even when they switched the direction of the lung, it felt gross.



The tube moved inside my body.
It felt like a large caterpillar was moving around.



But it was far better than the

“Gagggghhh”

feeling when it passed through my throat.

It was time to collect lung cells.


This time, it felt like the inside of my body
was being scrubbed with a toothbrush.
It didn't hurt.

When one side was finished,
the doctor switched to a resident?

After the resident scrubbed the lung in the same way.


Resident: “Oh, oh...! D-doctor!!”


(Huh, what's going on?)


Resident: “Blood, blood! The blood won't stop!”
“It keeps coming out...”

Me: (Whaaaaaat!?)

The blood in my lungs won't stop?
Because of the local anesthesia, I could hear everything, which was terrifying.

The doctor immediately took over, and the bleeding stopped safely.




My lung lavage

nearly escalated into a

“blood won't stop incident,”



but it ended there.Leaving the room＿＿＿＿＿＿＿

Just like the person before me, I left the room in a wheelchair.

The person after me had the same look on their face as I did before I went in.

You will be the same on your way back, too...

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