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and perhaps it was a warning. Recently my doc put me on low level hormones to "boost" my body's lack of them. I need the hormone replacements to have a (.)(I don't have one without help) Anyhow, I read the risks associated with the hormones and the one that literally lept off the page at me was the risk of blood clots. Apparently the risk is 10 x's higher in users of hormones, than non-users. This alone freaked me out. Then after I read all about the risks and obsessed about the clot issue, then this happens:
Fri afternoon, I saw an ambulance pull up to a building on my campus. A girl was on the ground and paramedics were trying to revive her. After 5 minutes or so, they put her on a stretcher with her head exposed. It was turned towards me. Her eyes were staring vacantly at me and her lips were blue. I thought she looked dead.
Today I found out that indeed she had died at the scene (on Fri). She died of a pulmonary embolism. A blood clot had formed in her calf and broke loose and traveled to her lungs and she died. She used hormones and smoked. It is bad enough to use the hormones and then the smoking made it worse. Still, I am now through with MY hormones. I won't put myself at ANY risk no matter how slight, after what I witnessed on Friday. Sorry that the topic is so depressing, I just had to get this off my chest I guess. Please say a prayer for her family. This must be hard on them. She was in her early 20's.
Fri afternoon, I saw an ambulance pull up to a building on my campus. A girl was on the ground and paramedics were trying to revive her. After 5 minutes or so, they put her on a stretcher with her head exposed. It was turned towards me. Her eyes were staring vacantly at me and her lips were blue. I thought she looked dead.
Today I found out that indeed she had died at the scene (on Fri). She died of a pulmonary embolism. A blood clot had formed in her calf and broke loose and traveled to her lungs and she died. She used hormones and smoked. It is bad enough to use the hormones and then the smoking made it worse. Still, I am now through with MY hormones. I won't put myself at ANY risk no matter how slight, after what I witnessed on Friday. Sorry that the topic is so depressing, I just had to get this off my chest I guess. Please say a prayer for her family. This must be hard on them. She was in her early 20's.