A lot of “died suddenly” going around lately.
“A lot of “died suddenly” going around lately.”
I was in the hospital most of December and the first ten days of January. I had Covid in Mach of 2020 and I’ve been around people who got it later and haven’t gotten sick. But I was bleeding from post operative difficulties. They kept giving me Heparin until I bled out and “coded.” They then gave me five units of whole blood. Two weeks later I had DVT’s from my toes to a filter they’s put in my chest. The clots blew past the filter but held together. The third time I was admitted to the hospital within just days of the previous release, I suggested to the ER doctors that the clots and the blood transfusion were related. Both ER doctors agreed. But when the vascular surgeon and her two assistants came to see me after the operation, I suggested a link. The two doctors with the vascular surgeon crossed their arms over their chests and looked like they’d bit a lemon. With a practiced poker face, the vascular surgeon said no there was link and everything that had happened to me was “protocol.” (Too much heparin followed by five units of blood was “protocol.”) Anytime I questioned things like why they’d given me heparin when I was peeing out blood that looked like latex paint the answer was “we are following protocol.”
Incidentally, it took an entire week of intense work for me to be able to walk a mere one hundred yards. It’s exhausting but I continue to walk as much as possible. When I asked the vascular surgeon if we could periodically check to filter in my chest because of the massive clots in my legs, her answer was, “that’s not protocol.” What the Hell? I have clots from my toes to my hips and we can’t check the filter that prevents them from traveling to my lungs? Protocol is code for “as long as I do “this” nobody can sue me.”