Photos shows shrivelled black lung of teen who vaped everyday
“I didn’t like it at first but then got hooked on it within the first week. I was heavily vaping from 14 to 16. I went through about four disposables in a week. I would vape all day every day,” he recalled.
In August 2024, LeeRay was admitted to the hospital because he had extreme pain in the left side of his body. This is when the extent of damage vaping had wreaked on his lungs was discovered.
Over the course of the next few months, the teenager’s lung collapsed four times. This led to surgeons performing pleurodesis, a procedure that makes a strong adhesion between the lung and the chest wall and prevents liquid from building up there.
However, the procedure was unsuccessful as LeeRay had to go through a pleurectomy, a procedure that removes the lining of his chest.
He then underwent another procedure where doctors removed a part of his lung that had been damaged. The piece of lung was shrivelled into a black chunk, and pictures of it shocked everyone who saw them.
LeeRay’s mother now Kylee Jope said of the entire ordeakl, “When we picked it up, LeeRay pulled it out and we were both like ‘oh my god’.
“It was the damaged piece of the lung that they had removed. We’re actually going to bury it at our house as a native tree. We were shocked,” she shared.
“I never realised vapes could do this. They advertise it to help give up smoking. You’re pretty much intentionally drowning your insides. Seeing my son go through that was horrifying,” she went on to add.
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