I just spent 3 1/2 days as an emergency admission in the cardio-diabetic section and after a series of Ct. Scan with contrast, Echo-Ultrasound of my heart, (ECG), X-ray, EKG and the lovely Vascular Ultra-sound lower extremeties study (OH SO PAINFUL) and they finally came up with a diagnosis of: Pulmonary Embolism in my upper rt. lung AND the bad part – it’s inoperable because OF where it’s located. I asked them why if they can dilute clots in the liver, kidneys, brain, anywhere else but not mine. They said if they did it would kill me. It’s less than 2 centimeters but bad enough that surgery to go after it would kill me in most cases. Note: I have a huge family history of this and all cardio events on both sides of my family. VERY DANGEROUS and if I hadn’t gone and had my symptoms checked, I wouldn’t be writing this right now. They say I’m in what’s called: “the gray zone” so I’m putting out feelers to see if anybody out there has ever dealt with this before or is now. Seriously! I knew the symptoms of a woman presenting for a cardio event but never gave a minute’s thought to a blood clot forming in my legs and traveling to my lungs and being inoperable! Yep, so now I’m at home on portable oxygen and on the tummy injections Lovenox and being weaned to Coumadin and still needing maybe two more surgeries. One possibly for more trouble with my right shoulder that I just had a resection on and for a slipped/crunched-by-breathing tube Hyoid bone in my throat from my Left shoulder clavicle resection back in April. I’m falling apart! Any takers on this? Medical personnel or folks who have actually dealt with this please. Thanks.
Oh, Stylish! Thank you so much. I’ll certainly speak to my Drs. about Protein C & S. I’m all new to this! Like I said, they put me on Lovenox shots immediately Wednesday evening at 11pm, then started me on Coumadin Fri evening at dinner. So now I’m at home with the Oxy, Lovenox shots, & coumadin until I see my Drs. either Thursday or Frid. to f-up and see where we go. Thank you for explaining it further! My husband kept asking me, was it in the return or outgo, and even though I’m lay trained, I’m not scientific, more creative so I hadn’t a clue what he was talking about! Then the nurses Thursday and Frid. so sweet told me exactly what was going on. Dr.s can be very evasive ya know. This, that, this! then have a nice night! See you tomorrow! Ugh!
Well, I certainly appreciate you stopping by and taking the time to explain. thank you. Barbara
Stylish, They took so much blood in the hosp. that they must have run the tests for that because I looked it up at this site:
http://labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/protein_c_and_s/test.html#when
Thanks again and I will ask Drs. when I see them aside from possible tests in hosp.
Also found this site for the genetics end of it: Very interesting!
http://www.bookrags.com/research/heterozygous-and-homozygous-wog/