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.
So last weekend my fil suffered a stroke. He did not know that is what was going on because he refused to go to the ER on a Saturday. His vision was blurry, he was dizzy and had a headache. On the following Monday he was to have surgery on his hand and his BP was 215/86 so the surgeon sent him to the ER instead. He recieved a CT scan and then an MRI. Was told he had a large stroke. His vision has been affected somewhat and he was told if he regained what he lost it would happen in the next two weeks. After that he should not expect to regain any more.
Needless to say he was admitted to the hopsital but released the next day with an INR at 1.3. He was given warfarin and told to follow up at the clinic. He has been a couple times with his meds being tweeked and now he is at 3.3 (they want him between 2 and 3). I am confused to why they would release him so soon. I know when I was admitted for my PE's (2009) I was told I would not be released until my levels were between 2 and 3. There is an age difference of course and we were seen at different hospitals. I just do not understand this and am worried about my fil and no one else seems to think it is an issue. I don't want to over react but I don't want my fil just written off because of his age. Like I said I am confused but it just seems like a blood clot that causes a stroke is pretty serious to me and the relaxed attitude (from the doctor and even his family) worries me.
Needless to say he was admitted to the hopsital but released the next day with an INR at 1.3. He was given warfarin and told to follow up at the clinic. He has been a couple times with his meds being tweeked and now he is at 3.3 (they want him between 2 and 3). I am confused to why they would release him so soon. I know when I was admitted for my PE's (2009) I was told I would not be released until my levels were between 2 and 3. There is an age difference of course and we were seen at different hospitals. I just do not understand this and am worried about my fil and no one else seems to think it is an issue. I don't want to over react but I don't want my fil just written off because of his age. Like I said I am confused but it just seems like a blood clot that causes a stroke is pretty serious to me and the relaxed attitude (from the doctor and even his family) worries me.
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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.
Honestly, folks are totally covered with the shots while their INR gets therapeutic. I'm not sure why folks spend weeks in the hospital waiting for INRs to get into range when they are already safe from clots.
In my opinion, it is easier to recuperate at home with your own stuff in your own house. Sometimes I think doctors keep folks in the hospital waiting for their INRs to budge just to keep the beds full and pay the bills.
Of course, that is my own opinion. Lots of folks were in the hospital for a long time waiting for their INRs to move into range, but I really don't think that NOT doing that decreases the standard of care at all.
Hope your FIL is doing OK!
However, I was healthy enough to leave. Seriously, at a certain point, the only think keeping me in the hospital was my INR being stubborn. It would just hang at like 1.2 so they finally gave 20mgs of warfarin to jump start it. But otherwise, I could have gone home within 3-4 days, instead of 7. At a certain point, there's just no reason to you keep you, if you're stable, out of danger, or no longer critical. So I agree with Toss. I don't think it's necessarily a low level of care if you're discharged quickly.
hope he is better soon.
My concern was he was in denial and wouldn't even admit there was a problem to begin with. Had it not been for hand surgery scheduled that following Monday he would have never known something was wrong.
My fil seems to be doing okay, but I do think his vision is not improving. I do not know if it will affect his day to day functions at this point..
I spent three days in the hospital. I went home with a 5 mg RX for warfarin as my INR was between 2 and 3.