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.

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TossNTurn 07/03/2011

Seriously, I don't know how I stumble across these things. Two brothers built a banana car and are driving it around the world. Part of the mission is to make a documentary. The other part of the mission is to raise money for DVT awareness because their mother (and cancer survivor) has had issues with blood clots.

You can read about it on their FaceBook page. The pix of the car alone are worth a visit.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Big-Banana-Car/362619161489

So awesome!

deleted_user 07/03/2011

great!

deleted_user 07/03/2011

How COOL is that car. lol

I'll be following it, go banana car.

deleted_user 07/03/2011

I love it, thanks for sharing.....it's already "liked" on my facebook page. It's crazy but for some of the people in my life it will take a page like this for them to learn about DVTs and PEs.

deleted_user 07/03/2011

They have a web site for those not hooked up on facebook http://bigbananacar.com/

LizaBee 07/04/2011

That's great. Most of my friends and Facebook friends don't know I had PEs. I've been dying (no pun) to get on my soap box and shout to the world about misdiagnosis.

I think what they are doing is great. I'm too shy to be an outspoken Advocate...for now. I want to though.

I wish we could start some campaign that gets Dr's to take symptoms more seriously so people will stop dying from misdiagnosis. Or, almost dying. All some of us needed was a cat scan.

(didn't mean to use your post for my soap box moment)

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