Prayers for all of you indeed. This is a very survivable problem..great you caught it early. Joyce
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 7:38 AM, Chuck Alexander < [email protected]> wrote: > Folks: My wife (and I) need your prayers. She had been short of > breath for a cpl days, and thought it was her asthma acting up, so she was > going to town yesterday and was going to stop off at our GP doc to get her > inhaler refilled. But, they told her to go on to the ER if she was short of > breath. Got here, and after many tests, they found several blood clots in > her right lung. This was a shock to say the least. They think it’s because > her job is working from home as a customer support tech and has to sit for > 8-12 hours straight, with only 30 minute lunch breaks etc. Anyway, the good > news is that they started her on a‘'heparin drip” and it seems to be > working they say. Doc says that if all goes well, she can probably go home > tomorrow evening provided a test they do to test you blood to see how thin > it’s getting. Hers is the standard “base” of a 1, and it has to be a 2 or a > 3 in order to go home. Then, I was stuck at home till my daughter could > get home and bring me up here, and I’m at home having MAJOR panic attacks > causes these things are DEADLY if not caught and treated early. So, I > started reading all I could about them, and the good news is that, caught > early as they say it was, it’s almost always treatable/curable, she just > may have to take blood thinners for the rest of her life. Small price to > pay vs the alternative we think. Then, just now, about an hour ago, her IV > “blew out” and the IV fluid was going into the muscle and next thing we > knew, she had a lump the size of a golf ball where it was located. took two > nurses about 30 minutes to find a good vein, but they got it squared away > and all is working well again. I must say, that both her docs, and ALL the > nurses have been just GREAT (Knock on wood, cause you always seem to have > that ONE single “Sarge” nurse, who seems to have anger issues with the > world LOL... Thanks, Chuck > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.2904 / Virus Database: 3184/6353 - Release Date: 05/24/13 > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" > group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en > > VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
