A pneumothorax can be caused by: 1  Chest injury. Any blunt or penetrating injury to your chest can cause lung collapse. 2  Lung disease. Damaged lung tissue is more likely to collapse. 3  Ruptured air blisters. Small air blisters (blebs) can develop on the top of your lung.  Mechanical ventilation.
Pageant, January 1975. ON THE NIGHT of December 30th, 1971, handsome, 31-year-old Pete Duel left his girlfriend in bed, walked naked into the front room of his house--and blew out his brains. Cerebral destruction, are the grim words of the police report that I read in the office of the local coroner.
When he puts on the spectacles, he sees that she is a toothless old woman. He expresses horror at her appearance, and even more so when he learns she is 82 years old. She begins a rant about a very foolish descendant of hers, one Napoleon Bonaparte Froissart. He realizes that she is his great-great-grandmother.