WWE star JD McDonagh has explained how surgeons were able to repair his punctured lung after he suffered a major injury on Raw.
Fans were extremely concerned for the former Tag Team Champion back in January as McDonagh hit the announce table after hitting a moonsault from the ring to the floor. While fans and commentary initially thought that McDonagh had hit the desk head first, the WWE star later revealed that he had suffered a couple of broken ribs and a punctured lung. Somehow, McDonagh was still able to finish the match.
While speaking with Chris Van Vliet, McDonagh detailed the procedure he went through so that his lung would stay inflated:
“So they take a tube that’s about the diameter of your little finger, they poke a hole in between your ribs, and they stab it into your chest cavity. Because the lung had come away from the chest cavity and collapsed, they need to suck all the blood and air that’s leaking from your lung in your chest cavity out so that your lung can expand and stick back to the wall of your chest.
So I was on this suction pump pulling all the blood and air out for a day, obviously shallow breaths, like half lung fulls, and then they change it to a different machine with a lower form of suction, so there’s less suction helping my lungs stay inflated. They’re seeing if it would stay up. Did that for another day, and then they took me off the machine, took the tubes out, and my lungs stayed inflated and stayed stuck to my chest cavity so they let me go home [from hospital].
I was blessed by the way. We were in Atlanta, Georgia, the next state up from Florida. If I had been in Colorado, I’d still be driving home because I couldn’t fly. My lung would have popped.”
When Will JD McDonagh Return?
The Judgment Day member has been side-lined for just over a month following the scary incident that took place on Raw. In the same interview, JD McDonagh gave the fans an update as to when he hopes to be back on WWE TV.
Everyone at Inside The Ropes continues to wish JD McDonagh a full and speedy recovery.
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