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.
This sounds kind of silly, but every so often being on warfarin can be a good thing.
Case in point ...
My mother-in-law made this horrible looking cranberry stuff last year for Thanksgiving and was nagging me and my husband to eat some for dinner. My husband was trying to push the attention on to me ("She hasn't tried it yet! Why don't you have some?") to avoid eating more but I twarted his attempt by throwing down the "INR card" (his words, not mine).
"Sorry, no, cranberries can mess with my INR. Looks delicious though!"
Of course I could've had some if I had really wanted to, but who is going to argue with a medical reason for avoiding the scariest looking dish on the table?
Anyone else have any thing they *like* about being on warfarin?
Case in point ...
My mother-in-law made this horrible looking cranberry stuff last year for Thanksgiving and was nagging me and my husband to eat some for dinner. My husband was trying to push the attention on to me ("She hasn't tried it yet! Why don't you have some?") to avoid eating more but I twarted his attempt by throwing down the "INR card" (his words, not mine).
"Sorry, no, cranberries can mess with my INR. Looks delicious though!"
Of course I could've had some if I had really wanted to, but who is going to argue with a medical reason for avoiding the scariest looking dish on the table?
Anyone else have any thing they *like* about being on warfarin?
I'm not really enjoying playing the PE card yet, but that's definitely a good way to use it! I was never allowed to do the cutting anyway because my hands always shake haha