A mother’s breath almost killed her – a habit of “frying her lungs like a hot chicken” when she made a “melting” sound when she breathed.
Hannah Roth had never smoked before, but said she picked up chewing as a “bad habit” due to the stress of the outbreak and was soon inhaling “every hour of the day”.
A 30-year-old woman began to breathe last month and at a temperature of 40 degrees Celsius, she began to hear a “popping” sound in her lungs. The mum-of-two didn’t know it was a side effect, so she was horrified when doctors revealed she had pneumonia, a particularly serious respiratory infection.
Scans revealed her lungs were in her 80s, or from a decade of smoking, and X-rays were said to show deterioration of her lungs.
If the doctor continues to warn, the mother will ‘die’.
The receptionist says she has refused to touch the vape since that day when the doctor threw her menthol vape in the bin and warned her she would ‘die’ if she continued.
“The doctor came in and showed me my X-ray and said, ‘Do you vape?’ And he said, ‘That’s why you have pneumonia,'” said Hannah, who lives in Tennessee.
“If I continue, he told me. [vaping] Then I was about to die. He took my vape out of my bag and threw it in the trash. ‘If you keep smoking these, you won’t be able to breathe,’ he said.
“As a mother, it was very scary. I have two children to take care of, so I know I can’t reproduce. “This is not what a 30-year-old woman’s lungs should look like. You look like a ten-year smoker.’
When he showed me the first scan, I looked like I had the lungs of someone in his 80s, much older. I was so mad at myself because I didn’t know vaping could do that.
“The doctor told me, ‘Every time you hit that vape, that vapor goes into your lungs and it’s like frying a hot chicken in there’. That’s why I’m making a hissing noise when I breathe in.”
Hannah estimated that she had been breathing every hour of the day for four years.
Mom is drawn to the habit of breathing every hour.
Now, Hannah has vowed to stay away from vaping to take care of her seven- and ten-year-old children and hopes to warn others to quit vaping.
“Since I’ve been in the hospital, I’ve been free and my lungs aren’t making noise,” says Hannah.
“The doctor said if I stop breathing, my lungs will heal.
“I still want to vape but I’m chewing a lot of gum and that helps. I feel a lot healthier overall and I’m saving money now because I’m not buying a vape every week.”
“My advice is don’t just ignore it, pick it up and beat it. Even if you think you have control over it, sometimes you just don’t.”
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