I have a brief prayer request. I was diagnosed with deep vain thrombosis today.
As some of you already know, I partially tore my left calf muscle two week ago and have been hobbling along on crutches while I healed. It was annoying to have this happen so soon after starting a new job but I was getting by. Up until recently things had been progressing well and when I saw the physiotherapist on Tuesday afternoon she said I was ready to throw away one of them. I had actually been using no crutches for shorter walks so had been looking forward to getting off them altogether sometime next week.
Anyway, things deteriorated drastically since then. I started feeling some pain on Wednesday afternoon but initially thought nothing of it, thinking it was just due to the extra exertion from getting rid of one crutch. By Friday though it was so bad I was back on both crutches. When I saw the physiotherapist for a check up she grew concerned – the pain did not seem to be muscle related – so she spoke to my doctor and he in turn referred me for a DVT scan.
I was sitting there having the ultrasound and the technician was initially all joking and stuff but then … hmmm, one of your veins isn’t compressing. Joy. Now I am not sure what’s more unsettlingly, the abstract notion that this is life threatening, or the very concrete fact that I am now facing a treatment regime of daily consumption of Warfrin tablets for three months, 2 needles of anticoagulant per day for the next two weeks till the tablets kick in, and blood tests every few days for approximately the same period to determine when it has kicked in. I don’t know how I am going to deal with the self administering of needles but I think I am about to see what it feels like to live like a diabetic.
But it could have been worse. The blood clot is below the knee, which is lower risk, and I am grateful that physiotherapist recognized the signs and that I have such a great doctor and other people behind me. And I know God is walking beside me through this. So, that’s the story.
Postscript: Updates to the saga will be posted in the comments attached to this post.
Curious Christian 
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