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To: ManyMoose who wrote (184216)	10/6/2009 11:49:13 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 225578

We returned from Montana on the 14th. On the 17th, I was getting ready for work, felt faint and passed out on the bed. Thereafter, through the weekend, I was very, very short of breath. Climbing the stairs got me dizzy and light headed. My doc thought it was a heart issue and had me scheduled for a stress test. The day before the active portion of the test, my left calf swelled up. Doc ordered an ultrasound and it turned out I had a large clot in a major vein in the left leg. It stretched from the groin down to the knee. I was put on injectable blood thinners for 5 days and am now on rat poison (Warfaren) to dissolve the clot and prevent others. As the doc explained it, what I experienced on the 17th was a pulmonary embolism likely from a piece of the clot that broke off and made it to the lungs. It could have been a life threatening experience - I understand that's what killed my former Representative, Jennifer Dunn. Luckily, I'm on the mend, but am going to have to watch out for this in the future, as I seem to be predisposed to blood clots (this was the third I've experienced in 16 months).