ER visit for possible lung collapse | stage 4 cancer

Added: 2026-05-13

[00:00:01]Good morning everyone.

[00:00:03]This is Kenji here again.

[00:00:06]Today is Wednesday.

[00:00:09]Uh and I guess I can say a day after my ER visit as some of you guys know from my post.

[00:00:22]So I just wanted to give you guys a quick update regarding my v uh ER visit.

[00:00:30]So, I went to the ER yesterday morning around 10:00 and because I was experiencing some chest pain which felt very similar to the chest pain I had I was feeling when I had a lung collapse during my procedure.

[00:00:56]I felt very similar, you know, initially I thought the pain was coming from maybe getting the massage too hard. So I thought it was like a muscle pain, right? So, I got a massage on Sunday night and you know, I felt fine right after I was done with the massage. But then Sunday night, I woke up in the middle of the night with a lot of chest pain. And I didn't really think too much of it. I was like, "Oh, maybe um my muscles might have gotten torn, so I'm just going to wait it out." So Monday morning comes I was like the pain was still there and also it was hard for me to breathe especially if I try to do a full breathing uh was causing a lot of pain. So I could only do shallow breathing, right? And I thought the pain again was going to go away on its own, right? Resolve on its own.

[00:02:10]But Tuesday comes. So yesterday comes and still the pain was there. It was still hard for me to breathe. And I started to suspect, oh man, why I guess there's possibly another lung collapse because, you know, I I don't think I've ever felt this type of pain um after massage, right? Usually, you know, the soreness is on the outside on your skin, right? or on your muscles, but it it felt like it was the pain was coming from the inside like internal right around my rib area and I don't know it was just very localized like around my chest on the side of the chest and also uh on my back it just the pain felt very different.

[00:03:04]So I got I guess I got a little bit more concerned because my intervention radiologist told me that if I suspect of any lung collapse, I should go to ER right away because I mean lung collapse in and of itself is very treatable as long as you're in hospital. But he told me that how it could be really really dangerous and deadly if you just get a lump collapse.

[00:03:37]Um I don't know when you're at home or just you're outside.

[00:03:43]So I got really all of a sudden I got really concerned and worried right. So I was like, "Oh shoot, maybe I might have lung collapse again." Because right side was the one that caused the major lung collapse, right? Which forced me to uh forced me a um overnight hospital stay. So I got scared. So I went to the hospital uh the ER um Kaiser ER um in Anaheim like right right away. Um and you know they did the EKG on me first. Initially EKG it came out fine and then I spoke with the um the triage medical doctor. It was funny because he was asking me uh some of the symptoms I was experiencing and I was wearing a mask and I was pretty much you know explaining what I was experiencing. what I just described, right? Um earlier in the video and he was like, "Okay, we're going to order uh uh some blood work and uh CT scan, right?" And I was like, "Um doctor, like is it possible to skip out on a CT scan and do a chest X-ray?" And then he was like, "Well, you know, it's like chest X-ray is not going to catch a blood clot. And I was like, "Blood clot?" Huh? I thought like lung clot. He said lung clot, right? Long blood clot.

[00:05:20]And I was like, "Oh, why blood clot? I thought I told you like I might I'm suspecting I might have a lung collapse." And he was like, "Oh, I thought you said lung clot, not lung collapse." Right. And he was like, "Oh, it's actually it's yeah, it's okay to do a chest X-ray then um instead of a CT scan."

[00:05:41]So he switched this order from CT scan to um chest X-ray because you know it's not good for you to get so many CT scans because that's still even it's just it could be a little maybe minimal but it's still radiation exposure right so I'm trying my best to avoid any unnecessary CT scans as if possible so he ended up ordering some blood work um and also a chest X-ray and both came out fine actually right. So blood work came out everything's normal and then chest X-ray shows no lung collapse.

[00:06:32]By the way, I'm drinking coffee. I don't know if you guys can see. Um I made it.

[00:06:38]I mixed it with um some uh almond milk as well. It's pretty good.

[00:06:45]You guys should try just mixing it with almond milk. Anyways, so it came out fine. So they could not find anything wrong with my I guess from the chest X-ray. So the doctor ordered a CT scan after, right? So they ordered a CT scan next and because they are now actually checking for any blood clot, right? So I guess they wanted to rule out everything uh for this pain. And by the way, I had to wait there for like almost 6 hours. My whole visit was 6 hours. Anyways, so they did a CT scan with a contrast. I wait an hour or two and then another doctor, your doctor comes in to explain the result to tell me that hey good news you again you know you don't have any lung collapse again we confirmed it with both a rich chest X-ray and CT scan and also you don't have any blood clot which is also again the good news and you know it doesn't seem like you you know there's not really anything wrong with um at least from a point of u chest x-ray and CT scan and your butt work you know everything seems normal you know we you know this CT scan is pretty much definitive she said and basically it rules out any infection of pneumonia um blood clot is not there um except you know there seems to be some inflammation in the lymph lymph nodes and I write uh long um what is it called? Um I forget artery or something. Yeah.

[00:08:41]And she oh lobe right right lobe. So yeah she said everything seems fine. So I was like okay. So why why am I in pain? It feels very very similar to the lung collapse pain I had. And I've usually never experienced this kind of pain except for that type like you know that one time I had a major lung collapse and she was like ah you know it could be you know your muscle we don't really know all we can see right now from your CT scan is is you have some inflammation in the lymph nodes and that's about it. Maybe I could give you some um you know um anti-inflammatory medication through IV. I forget the name. I think it start with um T toal or something to anyways. And then I was like, well, is that, you know, I kind of wanted to get it, but I wasn't sure because, you know, I'm I was scheduled for my last um lung abilation session on this Thursday, right? So, and I wasn't sure if I was I could take it because my doctor, I mean, my intervention radiologist has been telling me to avoid taking any aspirin because, you know, it could interfere with stopping the bleeding. So, I just want to be really, really careful. And I told her that, you know, and she wasn't actually sure, right? And I couldn't check with my doctor right away. So I just told her, you know, the pain is actually pretty tolerable. It just my major concern was, you know, I might have lung collapse, which is not the case. So I think I'm just going to wait it out. So she was like, "Okay, that's that's fine. So you can pretty much go home. Um, rest at home." And yeah, that's about it. That was about it, right?

[00:10:49]I was like, "Okay, well, I guess I guess it's a good news that I did not have a lung collapse." So, since I was already there at the facility, I after I got discharged from the ER, which was and when that happened was around already 4:00 in the afternoon, right? So, when I got there, it was 10:00 in the morning.

[00:11:11]So, I stayed at the ER for for six freaking hours, guys. ish.

[00:11:20]Anyways, so yeah, right right after I got discharged, I was like, "Oh, since I'm already here, I guess I I'll get some blood work done." Ordered by my interventional radiologist. So, I got the blood work done. So, I got poked twice yesterday, I guess. So, my left arm and right arm.

[00:11:40]And I did that. I came home, had dinner um with my dad and my mom and obviously they were pretty concerned too, but thank God, you know, I didn't have any lung collapse.

[00:11:54]Uh but right now, how do I feel? Um I'm still in pain.

[00:12:01]Uh but I don't know. I feel like do I actually have high pain tolerance, which I don't think so, but I don't know. I feel like maybe like looking back at what happened, I definitely should have gone to the ER on Monday morning instead of trying to wait it out like wait and see because again even if it turned out that I did not have any lung collapse, it could have been a lung collapse and it could have a major major critical critical situation, right? So I think it was my mistake to just wait and see. But then the thing is that, you know, I I think no one likes going to ER, right?

[00:12:44]Because I'm pretty sure most of you had at least like one visit to a ER. How long how lengthy that whole process is, right? It's just not very pleasant, guys. It's it's a whole day thing, whole day business.

[00:13:06]I don't know.

[00:13:08]So anyways, I decided to um use some of my um sick time and um to take the rest of the week off.

[00:13:25]I was actually going to just take tomorrow off which is you know because of the the abolition session. Uh, but I decided, you know what? I feel really, really tired and exhausted. I'm just going to take the whole week off. And I'm glad I did. So, I'm just relaxing at home. And I don't know.

[00:13:49]And I know that I remember, you know, in the post I mentioned how I'm really really getting tired of all these treatments and medical visits and I just want to give up.

[00:14:09]And yeah, it's not easy, guys, as you probably can already tell.

[00:14:20]I don't think I'm going to give up yet, but definitely that feeling is it's it's been there, especially whenever I get a medical scare and in a situation like this, I just want to quit, right?

[00:14:45]And you start to think about now what is the point of all this right most likely I'm going to die as terminal but you know there is some survivors out there who has beat stage four cancer uh and sometimes I tell myself, you know, that could be me, too.

[00:15:18]But along the way, whenever a situation like this happens, I just lose a lot of hope, right?

[00:15:34]I don't know, guys.

[00:15:36]Obviously, I go through a lot of ups and downs.

[00:15:42]on a daily basis and um a lot of mixed feelings, a lot of emotional turmoil you could say.

[00:16:00]It's not easy.

[00:16:11]I don't know.

[00:16:20]I think I'm just getting really really uh tired.

[00:16:27]Not only physically, but also mentally, emotionally, and psychologically.

[00:16:40]I feel like maybe I'm coming very very close to the limit.

[00:16:58]Yeah.

[00:17:01]Um yeah. So that's it for the update, I guess.

[00:17:08]And Yeah, thank you guys for all your kind words. As always, I have not been able to reply to a lot of your comments lately because a lot of things are happening all at once. So, I've been really really busy and overwhelmed.

[00:17:38]Um, but then again, I really appreciate you guys for following me on my journey and continue to support me in every way possible.

[00:17:54]You know, some of you share your own stories dealing with um your own health issues and I I really appreciate it. Right. I think it really helps me to kind of put myself in a different perspective when I feel feel really really down on myself.

[00:18:20]And yeah, I think a lot of your stories really resonate with mine too. So I think in that way it gives me a lot of courage to just continue to uh continue my journey right.

[00:18:38]Um so I really appreciate it guys and I wanted to mention that I have um a gofundme page. Um the link is available in the description of the video as well as the channel description. So for those of you who are in a position to be able to help financially um that would mean a lot to me. Again you know your help financial help is not expected though but always appreciate it. So, all right. Well, I will see you in the next video. And man, I hope I can talk about other stuff, too, which I want to, right? I don't want to talk about cancer all the time.

[00:19:35]Um, anyways, hopefully I'll I'll start to feel better.

[00:19:42]All right, guys. Okay.

[00:19:46]I'll see you in the next one. Bye.