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Woman, 30, Dies After Blood Clot Symptoms Were Dismissed Twice as 'Long COVID and Anxiety'
Emily Chesterton, 30, whose symptoms were dismissed during two separate doctor’s appointments, died after a blood clot in her leg resulted in a pulmonary embolism.
people.com
I was going to post this in the News and Current events section but since the story i have is mostly about me and only contains a few comments about what happened to the woman in the news article i decided to post it here. Anyway, I decided to post about this story because it reminds me of what happened to me two years ago the day after our dog passed away. I've shared this story on CF before both while it was happening and about a year later but i want to post it again because it truly is a remarkable story. Anyway, my dog had passed away 2 nights before in the very middle of the night and my doctor discovered that I had edema in my right leg and wanted to check out my heart and ordered an echocardiogram.
A few days later I got the test done, went home and about a few hours later I heard the results. I was shocked and didn't believe it, they told me that they were pretty sure that there was a giant blood clot in my heart and they needed me to schedule more tests asap. The next day was when my dog passed away and we had to bury him in the snow because the ground was too hard to give him a proper Burial as it was the last day of Janurary at the time.
The very next day on Feb 1st I went to the hospital for more tests and they found that not only did my heart have a blood clot nearly the size of a baseball in it but that I also had a pulmonary embolism in both of my lungs and a giant DVT in my right leg which is the leg where my doctor discovered the edema. My wife and I were told to go the ER right away.
The ER later admitted me to the hospital that night and the next day they took more pictures of my heart. Then the doctor came in with even worse news. It turned out that there was a hole in my heart that doctors never knew about that's been there since birth (and is still there I never got surgery for it) and the blood clot was trying to move through the hole into the other side which the doctor said was very dangerous because if it got on the other side because it likely would lead to a stroke and more than likely, death. So i needed to have open heart surgery to remove the blood clot as soon as possible and our hospital was too small to deal with such an urgent medical problem plus we lacked the surgeons to actually do the surgery.
So that night I took the ambulance to a giant hospital in New Hampshire where they were going to do the surgery. My surgery was scheduled for the next day because by the time I got to New Hampshire it was already morning and they had no surgeons who could do the surgery that day. So they put me under the next day and were going to do the surgery and this is where the story gets to be unbelievable but I swear it's true. When I woke up from the anesthesia there was a nurse in my room and I asked her how the surgery went. I had automatically assumed I was fine because well, I woke up and she gave me truly shocking news that mafe my jaw drop. I'll make it as short as possible but basically she said that the surgeons couldn't find the blood clot in my heart. They apparently had looked everywhere and checked my brain first since it was the most logical place it could have went it wasn't there. So they checked everywhere else and had to admit defeat. The blood clot was supernaturally gone and there was no scientific explanation as to where the blood clot went. It was just gone. I've since recovered from all of my blood clots they have all dissolved and obviously being in such a serious situation I'm still here today which to me provides definitive proof that the doctors were right and the blood clot in my heart just mysteriously disappeared.
Im sorry i included a story about myself and its truly sad that this woman with lesser symptoms than me passed away all because doctors ignored her symptoms. Had my doctor not decided to investigate my heart and had not the grace and divine healing of God not been placed upon me, I wouldn't be here either. And it makes me very grateful to God and very grateful to the doctors for quickly diagnosing what was wrong with me and trying to get me the help i needed to save my life. I truly hope that this woman's family sues the doctors who ignored her symptoms and ultimately caused her death. Not every blood clot story ends positively like mine and its just sad just how many people die from blood clots every year and just how silent of a killer they are. Because when I had blood clots everywhere I had no symptoms at all and had my doctor not investigated another problem I 100% would not be here today either, the blood clots would have definitely killed me. But I like this story because it not only cements my faith in God but it proves that God still heals and his plan is still present and active in the world today.