Lady of Fire

Bloodclot as Lung

In Wieselthaler’s case, blood eventually broke out of his patient’s pulmonary network into the lower right lung, heading directly for the bronchial tree. After days of coughing up much smaller clots, Wieselthaler’s patient bore down on a longer, deeper cough and, relieved, spit out a large, oddly shaped clot, folded in on itself. Once Wieselthaler and his team carefully unfurled the bundle and laid it out, they found that the architecture of the airways had been retained so perfectly that they were able to identify it as the right bronchial tree based solely on the number of branches and their alignment.

Autumn moodboard// Dark Autumn

“ABCDEFGHI”

A - Airway Is the patient’s airway open?

B - Breathing Is the patient breathing?

C - Circulation Is the patient’s blood circulating properly and not cut off anywhere?

D - Disability Does the patient have a preexisting condition that could effect treatment?

E - Examine Does the patient have any obvious injuries?

F - Fahrenheit Does the patient have a healthy temperature?

G - Get Vitals Are the patient’s vitals normal?

H - Head-to-Toe Assessment Are there any other injuries to the patient?

That’s “Atrial Flubber”