While I've had a number of chronic health issues over the last few years, I've been fighting crohns disease with constant flare ups. This has resulted in my gastroenterologist sending me to another doctor at KU Medical Center. My flares have resulted in severe anemia and iron deficiency. The new doctor sent me to a hematologist to diagnose these problems, and come up with a treatment strategy. Just 2 weeks before, I had gotten a "clean bill of health" from my family care doctor (given the low iron & anemia.)
So I'm meeting with this new doctor at KU's Bloch Cancer Center, and as she interviews me, she becomes suspicious and sends me across the hall to get an ultrasound of my legs, and finds I have blood clots in my right calf. Due to that, she immediately sent me up to have a CAT scan of my chest, and low and behold, I have at least 3 blood clots in my lungs (pulmonary embolisms.) She immediately made arrangements for me to be admitted to the KU Medical Center hospital, and I was immediately put on oxygen and blood thinners. I was also given a blood transfusion before I was released from the hospital.
From what I've been told, the way most people find out they have PEs are from a heart attack, a stroke, or from a autopsy.
I'm convinced that it was Divine Intervention that allowed me to see that specific doctor who was able to "connect the dots" on that specific date, diagnosing a potentially fatal condition before it was too late.
Mark
What a story. Thank goodness for that doctor.
Praise God for that miracle finding and healing.
My late longtime boyfriend or SO had PE’s that went to his lungs, even with the best of treatment and it was thought he was recovering for the better when a “rouge” blood clot went to his heart and killed him.
While I have come to terms that his time on earth as well as his work was done, I still struggle will his sudden and very sad passing.