I have always hated P.E.

Today I got a call from the pulmonary doctor. He told me to be careful not to fall down today. It seems last week my blood test showed my level to be 1.6. He tries to keep adjusting the medication to keep me at 2.0. The results he was calling me about said I am now at 5.3. This means that my blood is extremely thin. It also means that I could fall on my face and pass out. It means if I get a cut I could bleed to death. It means if I hit my knee on the coffee table it will leave a huge nasty bruise.I have now stopped the blood thinning drugs completely as I can't have the sigmoidocopy until I have been off of them for at least five days. To you this means absolutely nothing, to me it is another signal that the waiting and worrying and preparing is nearly over with. I will either do well and be out of there quickly or I will develop complications and start this nightmare all over again.

Thankfully, the CT Scan I had done seems to show that the pulmonary emboli are all gone with the exception of possibly one teeny tiny one left in my right lung. The Radiologist hadn't read the films yet but Dr. O looked at them and said everything looks good. I asked him about the ongoing coughing and if it was going to postpone the big day. He said there is no fluid in my lungs and that if I have anything it is bronchial. He thinks there is plenty of time for me to get over the cough before I go in. Let's hope he is right.

Posted by gwendolyn on February 21, 2003 at 02:33 PM