[McGavin999]

There are two things I don't understand about this. Why would they give him blood thinners for so long and not be constantly monitoring him, and why on earth would they choose to drive for over an hour when he is ill. Especially after the stroke last time.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Giving blood thinners is sop for a number of things. If there is any worry about clotting causing a problem, they thin. You can certainly have a stroke from ischemic blockage, too.

No doubt they were monitoring him. They were getting ready to do cardiac surgery on him. They just didn't know he was going to have a blow out.

My mother had a mild heart attack, and they gave her clot dissolving drugs. It dissolved the plaque that was keeping an aortal aneurysm from bursting. It burst, and she died. But she certainly was being monitored.