Today I saved my husbands life..
Thrombosis occurs when blood clots block your blood vessels. Venous thrombosis is when the blood clot blocks a vein. Veins carry blood from the body back into the heart..
Today I was lucky enough to literally save my husbands life. What started with a serious illness 1.5 week ago with both surgery as well as long stay at the hospital, and return to home finally ended up in chaos this morning.
Neither one of us had a good night’s sleep. So just after six we crawled out of bed and went downstairs. Minutes later my husband was lying on the sofa screaming his lungs out.
Minutes after that I called for an ambulance.
This is where the real drama begin, first of all that dreaded wait for the ambulance to actually arrive. I believe 15 minutes from lifting my phone to arrival does seem like a good, and reasonable amount of minutes to have to wait.
At least right now. In the morning it was more like a where the f-ck are they kind of feeling.
Anyhow, they arrive, with my husband [quite rightfully] screaming for them to take the pain away. Cause that is how much pain he was in.
If you follow me and my writing you would know by now my significant other is an ex marine. Something that makes him just about as pig headed and pain tolerant as they get..
My husband also have a previous experience with suffering from Thrombosis, and repeatedly said [read screamed] this feels just like Thrombosis.
This is when the [male] paramedic decide it cannot be Thrombosis, but is more likely a Hernia which will also be the reason my husband is no longer their responsibility. He then turns to me and ask if I called for an ambulance or a doctor?
To which I respond: well there were only three choices when dialling 112 [911].
Either one choose for the police, the fire department or an ambulance. Considering the situation, and circumstances I thought an ambulance was the right call.
But now, when the male paramedic have made the diagnosis that my hubby has a hernia he also declare he no longer their responsibility.
Then he tells us we now have to wait till our doctor opens his office at 8am, so we can head over there and get some strong pain killers to help with the back pain.
This is where I praise the lord my late mother, a skilled expert in and a highly qualified medical instructor specialising in military trauma medicine, have rubbed off some of her common sense and medical skills to me.
Combine this with my previous career within quite the manly professions such as good old fashioned sports photography, and aviation I did not take no for an answer from this mansplaining character of a paramedic.
I made them bring my hubby with them to the hospital. Ending up in the trauma ward when he did saved my husbands life.
Cause that is exactly what the heart specialist performing the emergency surgery clearing out the Aorta from a huge blood cloth told me.
Arterial thrombosis is when the blood clot blocks an artery. Arteries carry oxygen-rich blood away from the heart to the body.
Same story came from the nurses prepping my husband for surgery, the doctors in the ER, and the medical team at the ICU [intensive care unit] where my husband currently reside.
Imagine if I had not been my mother’s daughter in this.
Imagine if I had listened to this [thankfully, kind of a rare specimen of a] paramedic and have let them leave without my husband.
Imagine the impact that would have had on my husband and myself this gloomy December day of 2024. The year when Christmas was cancelled..
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