On Tuesday morning, I suffered a cardiac incident and a pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lungs) and had to go to the hospital. They said I was very close to either a heart attack or a stroke.
I have been very weak since then and have laid down in bed for days.
We were worried about you, man. I'm really glad that happened before you had a heart attack.
Take 'er easy for a while, OK?
Get well soon and we'll leave the pixels on for you.
Get well soon Bandit. Happy to hear you dodged the serious bullet and hope you get thru this quickly and cleanly.
I hope you will recover well, and I'm sorry to hear you've been going through that.
These are hard times, and that makes it even harder, so I hope everything will get better.
Here's hoping for a good recovery.
Get well soon!
Youll be as good as new in no time!
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Just curious -- did they test you for COVID-19? I heard something on the news tonight about it causing pulmonary embolisms.
Quote from: hbelkins on May 01, 2020, 08:12:39 PM
Just curious -- did they test you for COVID-19? I heard something on the news tonight about it causing pulmonary embolisms.
They didn't test me for it.
Glad to hear you're doing better.
Those are scary. About 5 years ago, it turns out I was walking around with one and a DVT. It was triggered by a flight. The night after I got to Indy, I was at a party and all of a sudden I felt like I couldn't breathe. I couldn't walk more than 50 feet without being totally winded. I thought I was getting sick and toughed it out till I got home, and thought it was pneumonia. After a couple days in the hospital when my O2 got down to 89%, the doctors treated me with antibiotics and steroids, but it did nothing. After 3 trips to the doctor, I said forget it and drove myself to the ER. I was admitted, and went into surgery the next day, and woke up in the ICU 10 days later. Lucky I wasn't a goner. Glad you're ok.
Quote from: jp the roadgeek on May 03, 2020, 02:32:23 AM
Those are scary. About 5 years ago, it turns out I was walking around with one and a DVT. It was triggered by a flight. The night after I got to Indy, I was at a party and all of a sudden I felt like I couldn't breathe. I couldn't walk more than 50 feet without being totally winded. I thought I was getting sick and toughed it out till I got home, and thought it was pneumonia. After a couple days in the hospital when my O2 got down to 89%, the doctors treated me with antibiotics and steroids, but it did nothing. After 3 trips to the doctor, I said forget it and drove myself to the ER. I was admitted, and went into surgery the next day, and woke up in the ICU 10 days later. Lucky I wasn't a goner. Glad you're ok.
I had a DVT years ago but it didn't make it to my lungs. I thought the "charley horse" in my leg would eventually go away and I didn't get it tested against the suspicion of my doctor and my wife asking me to do so. After a couple of weeks of leg pain and swelling I finally relented and they sent me over to have an ultrasound. The tech's eyes as she looked at the screen said it all and she told me that I needed to get over to the hospital right away. Good times.