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RIP Kyle Busch.

TheOriginalCane said:
It might help if I knew who "Kimmie" was...

...and I don't...normally I'd think of Kimi Raikkonen (I'm a fan of all types of auto racing), but I don't think that's who you are referencing...


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It’s hard to imagine someone having pneumonia to that level and not being in the hospital. Yet he was still doing racing stuff. He must have ignored every symptom he had if that was the case. Strange.
 
edge said:
It’s hard to imagine someone having pneumonia to that level and not being in the hospital.
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Hello there.

Happened to me in September 2025 in the two weeks after the Notre Dame game.

Pneumonia and vomiting. Moved to a staph infection, then went septic, then multi-organ failure. Went into the ER just after midnight and was put into a medical coma to control the fever and infections. Within the first 36 hours in the ICU, my family was told I was not going to make it. Another few hours of trying to sleep it off at home would have resulted in me dying.

It happens, and I can relate. I went to work every day from Monday through Thursday that week, and I only worked from home on Friday because of the vomiting (plus diarrhea on Friday). ****, I was on the weekly Zoom call from 4 pm to 6 pm. Had my wife drive me to the ER at midnight because I didn't think calling an ambulance would be fast enough.

Spent 5 weeks in 2 hospitals.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Hello there.

Happened to me in September 2025 in the two weeks after the Notre Dame game.

Pneumonia and vomiting. Moved to a staph infection, then went septic, then multi-organ failure. Went into the ER just after midnight and was put into a medical coma to control the fever and infections. Within the first 36 hours in the ICU, my family was told I was not going to make it. Another few hours of trying to sleep it off at home would have resulted in me dying.

It happens, and I can relate. I went to work every day from Monday through Thursday that week, and I only worked from home on Friday because of the vomiting (plus diarrhea on Friday). ****, I was on the weekly Zoom call from 4 pm to 6 pm. Had my wife drive me to the ER at midnight because I didn't think calling an ambulance would be fast enough.

Spent 5 weeks in 2 hospitals.
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**** brother. Glad you're still here. RIP KFB
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Hello there.

Happened to me in September 2025 in the two weeks after the Notre Dame game.

Pneumonia and vomiting. Moved to a staph infection, then went septic, then multi-organ failure. Went into the ER just after midnight and was put into a medical coma to control the fever and infections. Within the first 36 hours in the ICU, my family was told I was not going to make it. Another few hours of trying to sleep it off at home would have resulted in me dying.

It happens, and I can relate. I went to work every day from Monday through Thursday that week, and I only worked from home on Friday because of the vomiting (plus diarrhea on Friday). ****, I was on the weekly Zoom call from 4 pm to 6 pm. Had my wife drive me to the ER at midnight because I didn't think calling an ambulance would be fast enough.

Spent 5 weeks in 2 hospitals.
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You and your family are lucky you are alive. That really sucks. Septic and staph are almost a death sentence. Pneumonia creeps up on you fast especially when you are consumed and hyper focused on work or whatever it might be. Hope you did not get any permanent damage from those strong antibiotics.

With Kyle Busch he might have had pneumonia and not even knew it with how competitive he was. If he does not work his crew and people around him do not work. We all get sick thinking it will pass soon and keep working. Engine fumes, air particles, smoking, vaping, bacteria, viruses and fungi, or any combination can cause pneumonia.

I had pneumonia during covid in both lungs. One day I just could not breath and had to go to the hospital where they pumped to gas into my lungs. Made a difference. I still have pulmonary ground-glass opacity nodules in both lungs. Just scar tissue from past infections is what the pulmonologist said. At work to keep from coughing up blood from coughing to hard, we would just take oxycodone. It stops the cough within ten minutes. On an airplane coughing, during covid, one oxy knocks it out.


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edge said:
It’s hard to imagine someone having pneumonia to that level and not being in the hospital. Yet he was still doing racing stuff. He must have ignored every symptom he had if that was the case. Strange.
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I've had pneumonia more times than I can count, and my pulmonologist usually keeps me outpatient. And I have severe asthma.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Holy ****.

So Kyle had gone down to the Hendrick shop to do testing in the sim. ****...

I gotta give the guy credit, he was a hardcore racing fanatic. Nothing could stop him. Except one thing.

R.I.P., Kyle. Condolences to Kurt.
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He drove for Richard Childress Racing. Hendrick is where he started.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Hello there.

Happened to me in September 2025 in the two weeks after the Notre Dame game.

Pneumonia and vomiting. Moved to a staph infection, then went septic, then multi-organ failure. Went into the ER just after midnight and was put into a medical coma to control the fever and infections. Within the first 36 hours in the ICU, my family was told I was not going to make it. Another few hours of trying to sleep it off at home would have resulted in me dying.

It happens, and I can relate. I went to work every day from Monday through Thursday that week, and I only worked from home on Friday because of the vomiting (plus diarrhea on Friday). ****, I was on the weekly Zoom call from 4 pm to 6 pm. Had my wife drive me to the ER at midnight because I didn't think calling an ambulance would be fast enough.

Spent 5 weeks in 2 hospitals.
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First and foremost, happy you are here to tell the story.

I guess I am only relating the experience my son had with pneumonia. He had severe pain in his rib. The first ER visit said he cracked his rib weightlifting. But then the pain got even worse. Turns out he had pneumonia and his lung cavity was full of fluid. He was in the hospital 8 days getting his lung cavity drained. Fortunately everything turned out well. But it was super stressful and we definitely knew something was very wrong.
 
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edge said:
Fist and foremost, happy you are here to tell the story.

I guess I am only relating the experience my son had with pneumonia. He had severe pain in his rib. The first ER visit said he cracked his rib weightlifting. But then the pain got even worse. Turns out he had pneumonia and his lung cavity was full of fluid. He was in the hospital 8 days getting his lung cavity drained. Fortunately everything turned out well. But it was super stressful and we definitely knew something was very wrong.
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Lung issues can give you a very similar pain. It's really scary.

I'm so glad your son is okay now.
 
JO Cane said:
TheOriginalCane said:
Holy ****.

So Kyle had gone down to the Hendrick shop to do testing in the sim. ****...

I gotta give the guy credit, he was a hardcore racing fanatic. Nothing could stop him. Except one thing.

R.I.P., Kyle. Condolences to Kurt.
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He drove for Richard Childress Racing. Hendrick is where he started.
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He was at Hendrick’s facility in the sim at the time of the 911 call.
 
TheOriginalCane said:
Hello there.

Happened to me in September 2025 in the two weeks after the Notre Dame game.

Pneumonia and vomiting. Moved to a staph infection, then went septic, then multi-organ failure. Went into the ER just after midnight and was put into a medical coma to control the fever and infections. Within the first 36 hours in the ICU, my family was told I was not going to make it. Another few hours of trying to sleep it off at home would have resulted in me dying.

It happens, and I can relate. I went to work every day from Monday through Thursday that week, and I only worked from home on Friday because of the vomiting (plus diarrhea on Friday). ****, I was on the weekly Zoom call from 4 pm to 6 pm. Had my wife drive me to the ER at midnight because I didn't think calling an ambulance would be fast enough.

Spent 5 weeks in 2 hospitals.
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caneingville said:
I've had pneumonia more times than I can count, and my pulmonologist usually keeps me outpatient. And I have severe asthma.
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This sounds like me…😂….i can’t count the times I’ve had pneumonia.I was always hardheaded and thought I could just battle through it cause at 60 I thought I was still 20 this was until it took my wife calling my daughter to try and get her to convince me to go to the hospital.

When I got there I was so weak I couldn’t get out of the car and the ER staff had to come get me. After taking blood They told me my potassium level among other things was so low they had no clue how I hadn't had a serious stroke.Spent almost 2 weeks in the hospital and I can’t thank my wife and daughter enough for convincing one hard headed old man to go to the hospital.

Ever since that day I don’t mess with it and get a flu and pneumonia shots and watch the color of the phlegm ( as told to do by a Dr.)and know once it starts to turn darker I need to get to the Urgent Care cause the infection is getting deeper into my lungs and will be harder to help.

So to all you boys and girls that might think pneumonia is something to play with trust this much older man now that this stuff isn’t something to mess with and just watching the darkness of your phlegm is a great indicator of what stage it’s at and once it starts to turn brown you need to head to the Urgent Care or ER.

And I apologize to anyone that is reading this during lunch….

And TOC glad you made it through my friend don’t know how CIS would have survived all these years without you…..😜
 
JO Cane said:
He drove for Richard Childress Racing. Hendrick is where he started.
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Perhaps you can understand the confusion of myself and others, given what I was initially told by folks within NASCAR.

It's all good, I ain't mad at ya. I changed my earlier post for accuracy.



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