I’m Supposed to be Dead Today

[Silver Pines]

I’m Supposed to be Dead Today

By Erick Erickson
April 14, 2017



I am not supposed to be writing this. I am not supposed to be here. I am supposed to be six feet under, decomposing. One year ago today, I got wheeled into a cardiac ICU unit and treated for a stroke. I had not actually had a stroke, but a steady, slow accumulation of blood clots in my lungs to such an extent the doctors decided to treat me as if I had a stroke. They pumped tissue plasminogen activator into my body for a day before moving to other blood thinners.

I do not say lightly or hyperbolically that I should be dead. I just happen to be reminded of it regularly. The damage done to my lungs was, in small ways, permanent because of the length of time between passing the clots and discovering them. Occasionally now the wall of my chest cavity swells, presenting the same symptoms of passing clots. I have found myself in the emergency room several times since last year. Each time, except the most recent time, the attending physician always tells me he has never seen a case so bad where the patient lived. “You should be dead,” the doctor most often says.

Read more at:

http://theresurgent.com/im-supposed-to-be-dead-today/

[Sanguine]

@CatherineofAragon, that's a very powerful and timely read.  God bless.

[Silver Pines]

@CatherineofAragon, that's a very powerful and timely read.  God bless.

Isn't that something?  I read this piece earlier in the morning and I couldn't stop thinking about it.

God bless you, @Sanguine, and Happy Easter.

[Polly Ticks]

 

Happy Easter, @CatherineofAragon

[Silver Pines]

Happy Easter, @CatherineofAragon

And to you, too, Polly.

@Polly Ticks

[EC]

Good read. Wondered why he'd gone, well, not exactly more impatient, but more superficial? No, still not the right word.

Happy Easter.

[geronl]

Doctors told my sister they've seen more Vitamin D in dead people.

[Silver Pines]

Doctors told my sister they've seen more Vitamin D in dead people.

@geronl, is your sister all right?

[Victoria33]

@CatherineofAragon
@Freya
@mystery-ak

Every day now for Eric is a lifetime as tomorrow may not come for him.
We should all live that way, to use every day as our goal to do something useful or think something useful or say something useful.  The definition of the word, "useful", is up to each of us to define. 

[geronl]

@geronl, is your sister all right?

She's on dialysis. For a while now. So, no.  Recently she became lactose intolerant and hasn't been able to eat much. (although for some reason she still likes bacon and egg taco's)

[geronl]

@geronl, is your sister all right?

She got a vitamin d pill, once a month I think.

[Fishrrman]

Excellent piece for the day.
The image was a good one, too: