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.
It is with a little anxiety (ok a lot) and happiness that I think about tomorrow. It will be my 1 yr anniversary. Happiness for the obvious reason, and anxiety for a variety. One, not having a good day, physically. Two, I am off coumadin (awaiting the results of the repeat genetic testing too). And three, there is just something in my head that says I need to get past tomorrow, past the time of day it happened and so on, and then I will be ok. Makes no sense really, but it is how I am thinking right now. Really though, I know I will be just as nervous the day after, and the day after that, until time hopefully chips away at it. There have been many posts about having to redefine our "normal", and I am ok with that in the physcial aspect, but the mental part.... that I am having a harder time accepting. I want to mentally feel like me again!! Not sure I ever will. Reading Tom's post today did make me feel better about it all though. Again, all just takes time.
On a funnier note, I am starting to wonder about the month of March! March madness all around! I purchased both my homes in March. My PE was in March, and included 2 seperate hospital stays, one for 8 days and one for 3. As of March 12, losing health insurance. And last but not least, my birthday is the 13th. Some of my biggest life events seem to love this month! LOL And those are just naming a few things!
At the end of the day though, anxiety and all of that other stuff aside, just happy to be here!
On a funnier note, I am starting to wonder about the month of March! March madness all around! I purchased both my homes in March. My PE was in March, and included 2 seperate hospital stays, one for 8 days and one for 3. As of March 12, losing health insurance. And last but not least, my birthday is the 13th. Some of my biggest life events seem to love this month! LOL And those are just naming a few things!
At the end of the day though, anxiety and all of that other stuff aside, just happy to be here!
I can completely understand your anxeity...down to the minute that it all happened and I think it's totally normal!
You will get past it and everything will be GREAT!!! :)
I just had my 1-year anniversary last Friday and, like you, I felt like I just need to make it through that one day and I would be okay. I did, indeed, make it through February 24 and felt a HUGE weight lift from my shoulders by the end of the day. Somehow reaching the 1-year mark makes it seem like the PEs are now officially in the past.
As far as getting back to normal goes, I'm hoping for an enhanced normal. I don't want to go through what I've been through this year and not be changed in an important way.
And Cave, St Patricks day happens to be my sisters birthday, so see??? LOL Too funny!
Once I made it past about 9:30 this morning, I already felt a bit better, now to get through the rest of the day! (and every day after that!! )