If you don’t mind saying, how did they get it out? Is that as large as it seems? I’d guess thinners wouldn’t be enough to remove something like that. (I’m really glad it’s working out.)
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They shoved a tube in my leg with lots of little holes in it and flooded the area with anti coagulants. Then they ballooned out what they could (just like a catheter). There is still some clot that the blood thinners haven’t dissolved yet so I’ve got to keep having scans until it’s gone.
It stretched from near my belly button down to my calf, so yes, it is as a long as it seems.
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Still, you’re very lucky to have survived that. Holy fuck that’s a big clot.
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Congrats on getting it solved! It makes me wonder, what could have caused it?
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As far at the doctor could tell it was a combo of the pill and May-Thurner syndrome, which is where the vein gets compressed by the artery.
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Nothing compared to what else is on this thread, but FT for dropping my phone from a second storey window on a glass surface.
I really need the phone. Long-distance relationship needs email and texting and signal calls, looking for new job opportunities needs internet, current job desperately needs gps, camera and Google maps with custom layers.
A propos glass, display broken. Micro-splinters in fingers from picking it up and frantically trying to revive the phone are difficult to get out, and typing is like using sand paper on my fingers.
Meh for the phone’s company: display not available as spare part.
FTR, Yay For Autocorrect for making it possible to write my FT note.
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It’s not obvious, at least not to me… I believe it’s the first time anyone has mentioned this possibility, so Thank You Thank You Thank You! I will investigate this immediately!
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I mean… today sucked.
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Yes? Why is that?
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Just the 2 shootings and a fire in London. It’s really got me depressed today.
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Ah. So much bad stuff going on around the world.
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I had to be within ear shot of a bunch of Trumpers talking about guns all day at work. “Ohhhh guns!” “Mmmmmm look at his weapon! I wonder what kind it is?” “Semi automatic weapons get soooo hot with firing”… and on and on. It’s like they were talking about each others penises.
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No doubt.
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No problem. Please do let us know if you have any luck, I sincerely hope so.
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FUCK TODAY! Grrrrr!
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It started off not so great when I realized I’d set my alarm incorrectly for the day before. Only 45 minutes late for my appointment at the Humane Society, but the cats I selected weren’t given away yet. My happiness exceeded my anxiousness at this point.
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Tried to get a walk-in at a veterinary hospital, so I had to add buses into the straight trolley ride equation. In my lateness, I skipped breakfast and lunch. Got disoriented and went north instead of south, and in my anxiety, accidentally left my backpack with all the cats’ paperwork, two bags of cat food, a burner phone (my second phone line), and a “diary phone” I recieved for a nasal polyp study I started yesterday.
After 45 minutes, I realized nobody mans the phone for the Lost and Found at MTS on the weekend, so I figured I’d head on to the vet and see if they could confirm from there for the exam voucher.
At this point I almost broke down crying for putting the cats through this haul (and worried for what I would do without paperwork at the border). -
Reached the second vet office in as many hours, who wouldn’t do the exam for free without the voucher. As luck would have it, the Humane Society’s phone lines were down, so we couldn’t even contact them for a fax.
I decided to head back to get extra copies of my paperwork, border checkpoint be damned. My arms were aching from carrying the cats for hours, and I was feeling faint from lack of food and drink. -
Got my printouts again, the cats got some food and water and a potty break. I readily admitted it was my fault for forgetting my backpack, was really feeling bad for putting the cats through all this runaround.
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Back to Tijuana with the cats. Border check went smoothly, and we were allowed to ride the collectivo (minivan) taxi instead of having to spring for an expensive taxi libre.
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We’re now at home, with separate rooms for the cats, and food, litter, and new cat beds. The cats are curious, nervous, but still chill.
On the other hand, my feet and ankles hurt, I can barely raise my arms, and I’ll probably have a nice sunburn tomorrow.
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That is quite an ordeal! At least there was the reward of new kitties at the end 
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Yes! Feeling better today, though my handshake/squeezing muscles are quite sore from carrying the pet crates for so long.
Finding out the older cat is quite curious, and will have to figure out pet-proofing solutions in the near future. She pushed 3 things off the counter in the first 10 minutes! 
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Came into the house this afternoon, and there was a small rattlesnake in the dining room, about 10 feet from where my wife was sitting doing her charting. I yelled “Don’t move a muscle!” and ran back out to get the snake hooks. I did get it out of the house without her seeing it.
So it is snake time in the mountains. Goody.
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