Pulmonary Embolism Support Group
By far the most common form of pulmonary embolism is a thromboembolism, which occurs when a blood clot, generally a venous thrombus, becomes dislodged from its site of formation and embolizes to the arterial blood supply of one of the lungs. Symptoms may include difficulty breathing, pain during breathing, and more rarely circulatory instability and death.
It's "normal" to have emotional swings.....
When you've survived a PE.
This url directs you to an entry on a heart disease blog:
http://myheartsisters.org/2012/04/17/the-comfort-of-denial/
(Given with permission to re-post from Carolyn Thomas who has two blogs:
ethicalnag.org and myheartsisters.org)
For almost everything written there just substitute pulmonary embolism for heart disease---- you get the picture.
When you've survived a PE.
This url directs you to an entry on a heart disease blog:
http://myheartsisters.org/2012/04/17/the-comfort-of-denial/
(Given with permission to re-post from Carolyn Thomas who has two blogs:
ethicalnag.org and myheartsisters.org)
For almost everything written there just substitute pulmonary embolism for heart disease---- you get the picture.
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Look at what my best friend did with my picture!
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We all have 24 hours in a day. How we spend these hours is important. Watching a little bit of a video about how sitting affects us made me aware of how much sitting and laying down I do. Gonna have to work on that.Your turn. Tell me another truth.
"Yet few if any health care providers warn heart patients about coping with these ongoing terrors. Once our coronary problems are squished, burned, and implanted away (as cardiologist Dr. John Mandrola has called the heroic interventions that doctors do to our hearts), we are duly booted out the hospitals front door with barely a pat on the head and a brochure about heart-healthy eating."
Again, substitute PE for heart. What I read here on this forum is that many patients are 'booted out the hospital's front door' and perhaps a brochure. (Not all, of course, but many, as read here.)
That is the main thrust of that entry.
They then have to rely on a support forum which may or may not always give good information---- or perhaps information that is more a sin of omission rather than a sin of commission.