Re: OT: Take aspirin when you fly...
- From: Jim Garnett <jjimg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:55:24 -0700
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:40:21 GMT, Alan Baker <alangbaker@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
...and take good care of your health in general.
I gave myself and all my friends and family a good scare over the last
couple of days.
The good doctors at UBC Hospital Urgent Care finally diagnosed why I was
getting out of breath with exertion; progressing from feeling a little
tired after climbing the two stories to my place to gasping for air just
from walking briskly up a gentle incline for 30 yards.
I have a pulmonary embolism (i.e. blood clot/s in my lungs). The docs
think that a flight from Vancouver to Toronto that was schedule to take
4.5 hours but which turned into near 8.5 hour trial with a diversion to
Calgary for a medical emergency (and then a whole series of SNAFUs
getting us on our way) was the likely cause for me to have first
developed a deep vein thrombosis and then for it to have broken off,
broken up, and then stuck in my lungs. And as my lungs got blocked up,
my blood oxygenation went down and I could do less and less.
This finally led on Sunday and Monday to the tests that had me in a
hospital bed, hooked to an IV, on oxygen and transferred to Vancouver
General Hospital for a specialist to assess; from where I was discharged
today with instructions to return each day for injections of heparin and
further blood test until the oral anti-coagulants I've been prescribed
are starting to act in my system and they've established what will be
the correct dose for me.
But what is probably of use to everyone to know, is that when I started
talking about this with the various nurses assigned to my care while I
enjoyed my hospital stay, all of them said that whenever they fly, they
take aspirin (one said for up to a week beforehand) just because of this
possibility. When the people at the practical end of medicine are in
that much agreement, I'm listening.
So take care of all yourselves (yes, even all of you with whom I've been
known to bicker <g>) and when you're gonna fly for more than a couple of
hours, consider taking aspirin for a while beforehand.
Wow. Glad you're OK Alan. Better skip the spring skiing and get out
the sticks.
~j.
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