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.
March 18, 2010, shortness of breath caued me to go to the ER. I knew what they were already, my second round of PEs, and "indefinite" coumadin. Had some pretty bad infarction the first time, after I got out of the hospital I got winded on slow walsk with my wife. This time we caught it early, so no damge, but lung function was affected.
Long slow road to recovery, negotiations with the wife about training/racing on thinners. Trying to get back in shape, simply didn't have what I used to. But, in the words of rmb, I decided to "get out and do shit". My new slogan.
April 2, 2011 - I completed California 70.3 (half ironman distance triathlon). 1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike, 13.1 mile run. While I am not fast, i set a personal best for that course of 3 minutes, and a personal best on half iron swims (this was my fifth) of 2 seconds, and arn the course 5 minutes faster than last time way back in 2007 pre-PE. :) Very small victories that I will take.
Just letting folks know that things do get better and back to "normal", whatever that means.
Chris
Long slow road to recovery, negotiations with the wife about training/racing on thinners. Trying to get back in shape, simply didn't have what I used to. But, in the words of rmb, I decided to "get out and do shit". My new slogan.
April 2, 2011 - I completed California 70.3 (half ironman distance triathlon). 1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike, 13.1 mile run. While I am not fast, i set a personal best for that course of 3 minutes, and a personal best on half iron swims (this was my fifth) of 2 seconds, and arn the course 5 minutes faster than last time way back in 2007 pre-PE. :) Very small victories that I will take.
Just letting folks know that things do get better and back to "normal", whatever that means.
Chris
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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.
congrats and you are now my new Hero!
best wishes
Cath
You just inspired me to set a new goal.. Tin Man 2012. I had always wanted to do it... Just to say I did it. Now I am more motivated than EVER!!
Thanks for the post!
Hugs
Ferr