I want to start this post off first by thanking every one of you for your thoughts and well wishes when I first posted about being diagnosed with blood clots back in December. It meant a lot to me to know that there were people out there thinking of me.
And since I’ve been posting about a lot of normal things lately, I figured it’s probably time to update you on how things are going, since it’s obvious I’m not dead or laid up anymore.
When I first posted about it, I was enduring two shots a day in the stomach of Lovenox. The purpose of this was to immediately administer anti-coagulents right into my bloodstream to insure that the clot did not break loose and pass to my lungs, heart or brain. The goal was to get me on an oral dosage of Warfarin but it can take about five days for it to manifest in the system and start doing some good, so the shots needed to sustain me until then. I was also on Augmentin to counteract any infections I might have gotten (since they were initially thinking it was cellulitis) and Darvocet for the pain.
I'm not quite sure where to start with this story so I guess the beginning is the best. If you read the entries a few weeks ago, you might have seen that I had bronchitis. I healed fairly quickly from this after a few days of rest at home and a bunch of antibiotics. I spent my days at home working, since I have the luxury of dialing in to work, which was nice because I could recover at my own pace and still not miss much work. The drawback to that was I actually spent entire days and hours sitting in
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