[ifinnegan]

He’s got some stuff in his nose.

[Swordmaker]

James Green credits his Health Tracker App on his Apple Watch for saving his life as a blood clot let loose and created a Pulmonary Embolism. It doesn't take an Apple Watch to do this, a woman's life was saved in the same manner with a FitBit health tracker last April, but you have to be wearing one for it to work. — PING!

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[wastedyears]

In a country with rationed healthcare, he would die while waiting for said care.

[NorthstarMom]

My husband could have used that! Had symptoms in his leg but dismissed that it could be a blood clot (because I worry too much and go to extremes when looking up symptoms online!). Five days later he went in to the clinic and discovered that it’s a blood clot in his leg.

Praising God daily that it didn’t move when he was icing and massaging the calf! Exactly what you shouldn’t do with a blood clot.

[ctdonath2]

Been “closing the rings” on my Apple Watch every day this year.
Echocardiogram showed my heart ejection fraction went from 45% (and falling, bad) to 65% (high normal, good) - a notable improvement, likely saving me way more than the cost of the watch.

[daniel1212]

If my resting heart rate was 61 versus around 76 I would think something is wrong, and at 46 something normally would be.

But a RHR between 60 and 100 beats per minute is considered normal for adults, though for an Italian biker it was 25, while an RHR between 81 and 90 doubled the chance of death, while an RHR higher than 90 tripled it. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/resting-heart-rate-can-reflect-current-future-health-201606179806