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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Nationalday.com proclaims September 28th as Self Aware Day. I took a few snaps of various core values lists and tried to pick my top five core values (kinda hard to only pick 5). But here are my top picks. Feel free to list a few of yours too:GodLovePeaceStability Compassion
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Now that I am not talking to my whatever best friend, I realized that her life is full of drama. I had grown tired of hearing her stories about her boyfriend many months ago. She basically had been monopolizing conversations for that long too. She pretty much stopped asking me questions about me. I passed her in front of her classroom the other day and didn't even look at her. I am...
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