A Little More Detail
So, last Thursday, I'm taking my stepdaughter to see her pediatrician. My wife joins me there and sees the back of my right leg had a red hue to it. I had been in a lot of pain just behind and below my knee and had an appointment Friday to see my doctor about it. So, my wife suggests I just go into the urgent care which was across the parking lot from the pediatrician and let them look at it while she stays with my stepdaughter at her appointment.
The doc in the urgent care initially considered it was a sprain because how I described it made it sound like a cramp (which is kind of what it feels like). But, he changed his mind and said I needed an ultrasound just to be sure. So, went over to Mt. Carmel hospital and had the test done and sure enough, from my ankle to my groin was nothing but clotting in the major arteries. That meant being admitted to the hospital and later that night, a CT scan was done of my upper chest. This found the clotting in my lower lungs (pulmonary embolisms). The doctor wanted to do one more CT scan, this time of my abdomen, to make sure there was no clotting there. If there was, then it would have meant surgical, and risky, procedures to remove the clots.
Thankfully, that CT scan came up negative and so I was able to go home Friday night and am now on a treatment of blood thinners. Still to be determined is if my clotting was due to any sort of genetic disorder and thus prone to them. If so, then I'll be on blood thinners for the rest of my life. If not, it will be a six month treatment period.
So, I appreciate the kind words and thoughts and also the hand He had in allowing me to come out of this in far better shape that it could have went.
The doc in the urgent care initially considered it was a sprain because how I described it made it sound like a cramp (which is kind of what it feels like). But, he changed his mind and said I needed an ultrasound just to be sure. So, went over to Mt. Carmel hospital and had the test done and sure enough, from my ankle to my groin was nothing but clotting in the major arteries. That meant being admitted to the hospital and later that night, a CT scan was done of my upper chest. This found the clotting in my lower lungs (pulmonary embolisms). The doctor wanted to do one more CT scan, this time of my abdomen, to make sure there was no clotting there. If there was, then it would have meant surgical, and risky, procedures to remove the clots.
Thankfully, that CT scan came up negative and so I was able to go home Friday night and am now on a treatment of blood thinners. Still to be determined is if my clotting was due to any sort of genetic disorder and thus prone to them. If so, then I'll be on blood thinners for the rest of my life. If not, it will be a six month treatment period.
So, I appreciate the kind words and thoughts and also the hand He had in allowing me to come out of this in far better shape that it could have went.