Hi Curt,
Welcome back, glad to see you back in circulation, no pun intended. The lesson
here is.... if you feel a pain or something unusual... get it checked out.
I just went thru a similar thing at the end of December... had a nagging pain
in my leg, like a charley horse. It hung around for weeks, coming and going,
and moving to different parts of my leg. I mostly ignored it, thinking it was
just normal aches and pains from stuff I was doing. I justified it by thinking
I overdid the snow shovelling last month, etc etc. Finally my wife and I
decided to look up the symptoms on the internet, and discovered something
called DVT: Deep Vein Thrombosis.... a blood clot. So I called my doctor, to
get an appointment, and he told me to get to the Emergency Room NOW. Dont wait
another minute. Sheesh. So I did, and sure enough they found a clot behind my
knee. I am on blood thinners for a while, and hopefully it will diminish. The
ER Doc made a comment that I was "lucky that I felt the pain and responded. Do
you know when we usually find the blood clots? At the autopsy." :)
I had no idea that this pain could have been caused by a clot, nor any idea how
one gets clots. But I got one. The danger is that if the clot gets above the
knee, it can journey to the heart and the lungs, and things can get real
serious real fast. I was lucky, but it was a close call. So for anyone else
out there with a peculiar pain, particularly in the leg, get it checked. You
never know.
I look forward to seeing back at the ChowdahQ!
Tom Schuch
SE Connecticut
Message: 11
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:50:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com>
To: mercedes@okiebenz.com
Subject: [MBZ] worst of its over
Message-ID: <461330.86358...@web32806.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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So its done, 3 stents in 2 different places.
If it weren't for the pain in my leg and that I get dizzy quick I'd be outta
here now.
Thanks for all the kind words you lot.
-Curt
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