What Christmas feels like these days for Boomers....

[Manifestor_of_Light]

9. I'm lucky to be here. Some people would say blessed.

I had a medical emergency Thanksgiving night and landed in the hospital for eight days. I couldn't get my breath. Very heavy panting. Not enough oxygen. Had no chest pain so it wasn't a heart problem. I was baffled.

Went to the ER and I had uncontrolled diabetes and pulmonary emboli (plural of embolism). Blood clots in my lungs that could have killed me, and probably would have done so within 24 hours. They started in my legs as deep vein thrombosis. My blood sugar was almost 700, my oxygen was at 85%.

The doc said that if the clot in the Y of the pulmonary arteries behind the heart had been bigger, I would have dropped dead...*pooff*.

Thanks to a lot of very smart people in the hospital in a big city, I am still here. If I had been in a rural hospital near my home, they probably would not have figured it out or had the resources to deal with it. I was visiting hubby's son in the big city.

My husband and I still have each other. That is the most important thing of all. I'll probably be living here for six months, but that's fine with me.