Josh and I headed back to Etown after spending the day working on the house in Clarksville. We decided it was best for him to go to the ER at Knox instead of Campbell. We didn't have to wait long before a doctor examined him and started asking blood clot related questions.
wait...blood clots? At 25? Not making any sense...
By the time they called a ultrasound tech in it was 2am and Josh sent me home to get some rest and get Julia who had been staying with my sister. Then a few hours later the text came from Josh, it was blood clots. A large one and a few smaller ones in his right leg. The large one, right next to the shrapnel he received at some point the previous summer in Afghanistan.
The shrapnel had caused the blood clots to form over about a years time...the army doctors didn't catch it at all. Even with all the MEDVACS to Kandahar and post-deployment followups.
The doctors at Knox started Josh on shots of Lovenox and his doses of coumadin to try to keep the blood clotsnfrom getting bigger. They said he would be on the the coumadin for the rest of his life. So not only do we have a baby on the way, Josh could die at any moment if his blood clot moves....forever. This meant the end of his Army career as well as any other job that would require a great deal of physical activity. All this time, I am sick as can be with the pregnancy and still trying to make it all work some how.
wait...blood clots? At 25? Not making any sense...
By the time they called a ultrasound tech in it was 2am and Josh sent me home to get some rest and get Julia who had been staying with my sister. Then a few hours later the text came from Josh, it was blood clots. A large one and a few smaller ones in his right leg. The large one, right next to the shrapnel he received at some point the previous summer in Afghanistan.
The shrapnel had caused the blood clots to form over about a years time...the army doctors didn't catch it at all. Even with all the MEDVACS to Kandahar and post-deployment followups.
The doctors at Knox started Josh on shots of Lovenox and his doses of coumadin to try to keep the blood clotsnfrom getting bigger. They said he would be on the the coumadin for the rest of his life. So not only do we have a baby on the way, Josh could die at any moment if his blood clot moves....forever. This meant the end of his Army career as well as any other job that would require a great deal of physical activity. All this time, I am sick as can be with the pregnancy and still trying to make it all work some how.
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