I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while. I was hospitalized on the ICU for a week with E-Vape Induced Acute Lung Injury in Summer of 2022. I almost died bc no one recognized the signs, including me. Here’s what happened, so you know when to panic.

First signs- I got really sick for the first time in Fall 2021. I knew something was very wrong and kept telling ppl I was dying. I went to the Urgent Care twice and they told me I was fine. Sx: I never felt so tired in my life. I was sleeping 20 hrs a day. No appetite. I couldn’t vape at all without coughing, so I quit for 3 wks and miraculously got better, never knowing what had been wrong with me.

Summer 2022- the mystery illness comes back. the first sign is that I was in a furniture store and I was too tired to leave. I kept having to sit down. I felt like I could lay on the floor and sleep for hours. The feeling would come and go. I started having the low appetite and tickle cough again. I couldn’t work . Went to Urgent Care twice and they told me my o2 saturation and lungs sounded fine. They treated me like an idiot, even though I had been sleeping for the previous two weeks straight and had lost ten lbs, and could barely walk in a straight line. I went to the ER soon after and they told me my O2 saturation was at 72% and yes, I was near death. They knew what was wrong right away and admitted me, thank god. Steroids cleared up the huge mass of white material that was present on the scan. However, they say I suffered an extended hypoxic event, which damaged brain cells.

I stopped smoking carts after that.