Not the sort of experience one approaches with joy, even though you may be hoping that the procedure wiil help you feel quite a bit better. It would also be nice if they only needed one go.  Both times now they've needed two stabs to get it right.  Alarmingly, this time instead of a light straw-coloured fluid, it was a reddish, bloodstained colour.  They also managed to get out quite a bit more fluid this time, for one reason or another.  Again, although it did considerably help with my breathing, because of the collapsed structure, I'm still fairly short of breath. 

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