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Off to Urgent Care

October 24th, 2008

As much as I might make fun of chopping off some of my own bodily appendages, today I am actually volunteering to seek medical care…

Over the last few weeks I have had some rather severe swelling and pain in my left leg. The pain started right above my left knee on the right ( inner ) side. The redness and swelling soon abated but my ankle was swollen to about twice normal size and became, uh, quite “colorful”. I pretty much have been ignoring it, even though I could barely put my left shoe on. Now the pain and swelling has subsided in my knee area and has decided over the last 3-4 days to migrate north into the groin area.

At this point I have become “concerned”. Big Jim and the Twins being at risk certainly gets my attention. So off to Google I went to do a little spooking around at my symptoms. The best I can come up with is Deep Vein Thrombosis. Basically a blood clot in the larger leg veins that is restricting blood flow back to the heart. Prognosis is usually a Pulminary Embolisim, with attendant risk of death ( about 1 in 4 die even with medical treatment ) although a nice fatal heart attack or fatal (or worse, non-fatal) stroke is also possible…

So at the express wishes of The Princess, I am off to seek medical attention. If I survive I will probably serve out the rest of my life in Sherrif Joe’s Tent City due to my assaulting the hemotologists. (I absolutely hate and am scared to death of needles. If I see it coming I usually go completely bonkers and assault the hell out of whoever holds it…)

So here it is, 8:00 am 10/24/08 and I am off to yet another adventure!! I just kinda hope it’s not the last one.

I will update if there is anything new…

Troy Family

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