Gratitude
Gratitude! I have a lot to be grateful for today! Today I am gratefulto be alive! I am grateful for my family, my friends, my co-workers and my amazing medical team. On Wednesday I went the the doctor with calf pain that wasn't resolving after 2 hard workouts over the weekend. Instead of getting better, it had changed into something worse and just felt wrong. Being a health care provider, I had a suspician that I was in trouble and left work at lunch to go see my doctor. The ultrasound & subsequent CT scan of my chest showed blood clots in my calf (Deep Vein Thrombosis), up in my thigh and in both lungs (Pulmonary Embolism). This can be a fatal prognosis and I was immediatly admitted and put in the PCU on Heparin (blood thinner) and given a guarded prognosis. I actually didn't feel that bad lying down, but knew that at any moment things could change and I could disappear into a world of tubes, beeping machines and no control or worse. Even with the best of luck, my life...