A little over 30 years ago, when I was 27, I had my first spontaneous lung collapse. Four months later, I had the second (same lung). My doctor, a surgeon, recommended the procedure to keep it from happening again. He did the surgery and removed six blebs in the process, so this was, potentially, six more times that I could have had a collapse happen. After the surgery, it never happened again.
I have had different surgeries in my life, including an emergency C-section and have to say that the lung surgery was the toughest recovery of all of them. (I am not sure that you are having the same process/procedure.) Lung collapses are life threatening events, so in retrospect, I would not change a thing.
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