It's a long weekend...

[Big Slick]

and I'm laying in the hospital with clots in my lungs.  Not exactly what I had planned.
Dang the bad luck.

[Randy Kaar]

Hope you recover quickly! 

randy

[Lee Borgersen]

Hate to here when one of our MNO brothers is laid up. Sorry to hear that Slick. Hope you have a speedy recovery bro.

Lee

[deadeye]

Ouch, not a good time there.  What brought this on?  Too much time in a boat?

[Big Slick]

Anyone can get an embolism but truck drivers, frequent flyers and people that drive a lot in general get the embolisms, from what I'm told it's because of lack of movement and poor circulation in the legs. Then the clot forms in the legs and moves to the lungs, if the lungs don't catch it the embolism could end up going to your ticker...and that ain't good.  We just got back from visiting my in-laws that was a 9 hour one-way drive time.  She said,"It won't kill you to visit my parents you know", well, it ALMOST did!
 
Don't know for sure what brought it on but it turns out having pneumonia and a pulmonary embolism at the same time gets to be really...really...really painful. I have never felt anything like it before and never want to feel that again. Would make a great torture device if we could harness that pain.
Doc sent me home early but I have to give myself the shots and keep track of all the medications with an office visit each week for (?)

[Outdoors Junkie]

Sorry to hear about this slick!  Glad you are back home on the road to recovery!   

[Go Big Red!]

Get well soon.