[Magdalen] Ravages of Time.

[Molly Wolf]

I've done that!  I'm on Coumadin, and I tripped over a store entrance step and landed with my cheek against the glass inner door, which survived.  The resultant shiner was AMAZING.  Ditto the dinner-plate-sized bruise resulting from my slipping on a wood step and coming down hard with my back against the step above it.  That was two years ago, and it still hurts.  I think I did some bone damage.  The bruise took many months to resolve completely.

Molly
Aging ungracefully, but then I never was graceful

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Jul 6, 2015, at 1:53 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The absolute all-time WORST black eye I ever saw was on a patient of mine
> who was on Coumadin. She had a basement door that opened in a
> downstairs-facing direction. She had been in the basement and was coming up
> the stairs when her son, not knowing she was down there, opened the
> door........
> 
> You can imagine my shock when I arrived the next morning to draw her blood
> for a PT/PTT. The black eye extended from just below her cheekbone up
> almost to her hairline. And no, she hadn't gone to the ER for it. She
> figured "it would go away eventually." She was a mighty colorful sight for
> awhile. I tell you, those rural east Tennessee ladies are a tough lot!
> 
> On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> In a message dated 7/6/2015 12:37:04 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> houstonklr at gmail.com writes:
>> 
>> are you  on a blood thinner David?
>> Lynn>>>>
>> 
>> Aspirin, of course, since about 1972.
>> 
>> In my experience ASA makes little difference in the matter of senile
>> purpura.
>> 
>> If the person is on a real therapeutic anticoagulant like warfarin,
>> then I would emphasize the basic aging etiology, but stress
>> that the warfarin made the situation worse.
>> 
>> Incidentally the "warf" in warfarin = Coumadin is for Wisconsin
>> Alumni Research Foundation.  They've made a lot of money on
>> that drug.
>> 
>> 
>> David Strang. - WA = Wisconsin Alumnus.
>>