The past few days have been pretty eventful! On Saturday (5/7/09) night I had pains and a weird feeling in the left side of my chest, I went to emergency where they put me on a heart monitor and did some blood tests. We waited about 5 hours for all the test results to come back and they were sure I had developed a clot in my lung. Because I have had 3 anesthetics in the past 4 weeks I am at a high risk of clotting.

I was admitted at 2am on Sunday (6/07/09) morning and was given an injection of heparin to thin my blood and was told I would need a CT scan in the morning to see if their was a clot present. In the morning I was finding it a little hard to breath and found having the oxygen on helped. At 12pm I was taken to have the scan. They had to inject dye into my system, which was a very weird sensation! It felt really warm and then all of a sudden I felt like I was going to wet myself!

A few hours after the scan the doctor came to see me. He said their wasn’t a clot present but I did have pneumonia and both my lungs had collapsed a little. He said I could stay if I wanted, but was happy for me to go home on antibiotics.

It was a pretty scary thing, I know pulmonary embolisims are really serious and can be life threatening. So I was panicking a little and so glad when the test came back negative.

Today is day day 4 after my surgery, I will right another blog about how the actual lap band is going. I am feeling really lousy today but trying to walk around as much as I can to help me breath better.

So lets hope this is the last bump in the road! I have had enough problems in the last month!