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A student, enjoying a ski vacation during winter break, was brought into a hospital emergency room with a high fever. She stated that severe pain in the lower right quadrant of her abdominal cavity caused her to fall during a ski run. While down, she was hit by an out-of-control skier. The tip of his ski rammed into her right popliteal fossa, and his ski pole punctured her left lateral thoracic cavity, immediately inferior to her axillary fossa. This caused collapse of the left lung, but the patient was still able to breathe. Laboratory analysis revealed a white blood cell count that was higher than the normal range. In layman's terms, what happened to this poor student?
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