[Magdalen] What a Revltin Development

[Jon Egger]

Oy, prayers rising, Jim.  Ask the docs if you need a greenfield filter.  I
don't even know if they do that anymore...they were common when I was
working: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior_vena_cava_filter

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Grace & peace,
jon


On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 7:13 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> With this and your later message, prayers are ascending for a happy
> outcome for all this!
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
> On 10/25/2014 12:43 PM, Jim Guthrie wrote:
>
>> As Chester A Riley would say.
>>
>> I went to the local hospital yesterday for a CT Scan for my doctor at
>> MSKinNY,
>> with the idea they'd mail the Cd and that would be that.
>>
>> But the Radiologist here looked at it and noted multiple Pulmonary
>> Embolisms in
>> my lungs. He called my doctor in NY and my doctor in NY called me and
>> told me to
>> report back to the emergency room.
>>
>> And so I was admitted last night to Scranton Regional Hospital, and am
>> sitting
>> here with a Heparin IV drip and discussion of Luvenox? vs Coumadin or
>> Warfarin.
>> I f the Luvenox is okay with my Dr in NY, I can go home tomorrow;
>> otherwise I
>> could be five days.
>>
>> I suppose we'll do to Luvenox if it's okay with MSK. Albert is already
>> adept at
>> removing the chemo bottle from the Mediport on Sunday mornings after
>> Friday
>> treatments, so one more addition to his medical repertoire shouldn’t be a
>> big
>> deal.
>>
>> They've been very thorough here, I believe -- with a cardiologist
>> checking my
>> heart (looks good) and a Lung specialist filling me in on details of
>> different
>> therapies. Of course, it's a hospital so  the coffee is terrible (Albert
>> just
>> went to get me decent coffee after bringing me the laptop); because of
>> the ct
>> Scan I hadn’t eaten anything yesterday and ended up with a turkey
>> sandwich in
>> the ER.
>>
>> My Dr in NY was very concerned that I had walked to and from the
>> hospital, but
>> then we walk everywhere, and I try to walk a mile or two a day. Last week
>> we did
>> nearly five miles to and through Nay Aug Park here in Scranton. What was
>> considered good is now considered not so good, but perhaps that I had no
>> symptoms relating to the lung problems might be because I am is
>> reasonable shape
>> with the walking.
>>
>> In any case, please remember me in your prayers.
>> .
>>
>>
>