> For those of you who don't read LiveJournal, (probably most of you), I developed a really nasty ache in my left leg on Wednesday. By Friday, I had been to the local doctors, then the hospital, where I spent 7 hours having Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) diagnosed and a course of treatment started.
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> I will be on Warfarin, (yep, rat poison) for the next three months and if it fails to clear this particular instance up, for the rest of my life.
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> Naturally, this has curtailed my activity a little bit. I can only walk at a slow hobble, have to wear a support stocking and attend hospital daily for the next five days.
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> I am signed off from work for the next fortnight, but this is small consolation as the work I was scheduled to be doing was easy and had a good shift bonus attached.
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> I am also sworn off scuba diving while on this drug (again for life if I have to stay on it.)
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> I can no longer donate blood either. That's the bit that rankles the most. I was proud of attending every session and was looking forward to getting over 100 donations in my useful lifetime.
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> Bottom line, your health is the most important thing you have, look after yourself.
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> Beasty

So this means you are an old man??? The only people I know who have had that problem have been older than me, and that's pretty darned old.

Do rats ever have that problem? I wonder what they would take for it?
Howard