Pulmonary Embolisms

It's off to the ER ... the Mrs., survived blood clots in her lungs last year (8 out of 10 do not survive 1, she had over twenty), so we are taking no chances with what could be a new crop of clots in the deep tissues and veins of the legs.

There seems to have been a spate of clots among people we know since the Mrs'., bout last May (2007) and it has been among the 30something ladies we know. Just this past May one of our 30something friends had a clot in her lungs and in her leg and survived. So, far all our friends have survived -there have been four - and with the odds of fatality being 8 out of 10 there has been a lot more people who have had clots who have not made it.

Word to the wise:

If you can flex your foot back toward the leg and you can see a redness in the skin that was not there before you flexed your foot go to your doctor or better yet the hospital and have it checked out - it could be that in doing so you save your life. Clots in the leg are not fatal per se but they tend to travel and if they get into the lungs you might not beat the odds.