A bit earlier this year but nevertheless I got to spend another week with the NHS. I have learned that loud music - more specifically the vibrations from it - can contribute to a pneumothorax. I am not saying 'cause' because I don't believe it does - there is the precondition of a lung disease or predisposition to pneumothorax due to other factors, such as ankylosing spondalitis or, in many cases, simply being slim, tall and male (and a smoker). That said, if your lungs are predisposed to weakne… Continue

Heart Shaped World started when a pneumo-thorax (collapsed lung) gave me time off work and a determination to fill the time with something I'd long wanted to do. 12 months on and I'd regained a decent level of fitness, was looking forwards to early retirement and building up the heart shaped empire - still am, in fact, but have just come home from hospital after another pneumo-thorax. So if things have seemed quiet on the heart shaped world front of late, there has been a good reason for it! I a… Continue