Chuck Ellis
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I've been reading posts of the guys here who have been have a little health issue and kinda gloating about how healthy I am at my age... etc...
The first of May I was diagnosed with Aortic Stenosis and Atril Fibrulation.... the doc put me on a blood thinner and said he would watch the Aortic valve for a few months before we talk about doing any thing.... my initial prescription of blood thinner was Xarelto, which my insurance won't cover, so after finishing the samples he gave me, he prescribed Warfrin which need constant monitoring. My wife has been on Warfrin for over 20 years, has her own meter and monitors the INR (Blood thinness) and calling it in. They were in the process of setting up my monitoring when I began to have a very sharp pain in my mid thigh on the left leg.... I wasn't sure if I pulled a muscle or had a blood clot, but on Monday Jun 6 went to a walk in clinic.... the PA I saw examined my leg, called an ambulance and sent me to Knoxville to the hospital ER.... INR reading should be between 2 & 3... when they did mine at the ER, it read 7...... I had a burst vessel in my leg, bleeding into my thigh muscle and in excruciating pain ... I wound up spinding 2 days in ER, then moved to ICU for 2 days before they found me a regular room where I spent another 2 days.... near impossible to stand or walk and so lay flat of my back for 6 days.
No appetite, not able to eat more than a few bits of anything for 6 days and not much appetite still, but trying to force myself.
I got home on Sat 11, but this is first have felt like sitting before the computer.... my leg is purple from my butt check to halfway down my calf, the boys basket turn black and swelled to about the size of a softball...we lost the bat in all the puffiness.
Today I can hobble around the house and sit in my lounge chair.... even with cushion in my office chair and the dining room chair I can sit for about 15 or 20 minutes before the pain my upper thigh gets too much.... my lounge chair doesn't hurt so much so I spend most of my time there.
Goes to show you if you get too full of yourself something will come along to take you own....
Happy Fathers day to all you fathers and granfathers out ther.
The first of May I was diagnosed with Aortic Stenosis and Atril Fibrulation.... the doc put me on a blood thinner and said he would watch the Aortic valve for a few months before we talk about doing any thing.... my initial prescription of blood thinner was Xarelto, which my insurance won't cover, so after finishing the samples he gave me, he prescribed Warfrin which need constant monitoring. My wife has been on Warfrin for over 20 years, has her own meter and monitors the INR (Blood thinness) and calling it in. They were in the process of setting up my monitoring when I began to have a very sharp pain in my mid thigh on the left leg.... I wasn't sure if I pulled a muscle or had a blood clot, but on Monday Jun 6 went to a walk in clinic.... the PA I saw examined my leg, called an ambulance and sent me to Knoxville to the hospital ER.... INR reading should be between 2 & 3... when they did mine at the ER, it read 7...... I had a burst vessel in my leg, bleeding into my thigh muscle and in excruciating pain ... I wound up spinding 2 days in ER, then moved to ICU for 2 days before they found me a regular room where I spent another 2 days.... near impossible to stand or walk and so lay flat of my back for 6 days.
No appetite, not able to eat more than a few bits of anything for 6 days and not much appetite still, but trying to force myself.
I got home on Sat 11, but this is first have felt like sitting before the computer.... my leg is purple from my butt check to halfway down my calf, the boys basket turn black and swelled to about the size of a softball...we lost the bat in all the puffiness.
Today I can hobble around the house and sit in my lounge chair.... even with cushion in my office chair and the dining room chair I can sit for about 15 or 20 minutes before the pain my upper thigh gets too much.... my lounge chair doesn't hurt so much so I spend most of my time there.
Goes to show you if you get too full of yourself something will come along to take you own....
Happy Fathers day to all you fathers and granfathers out ther.
