[Dayze]

when trucking, I came home for the weekend; woke up Saturday and felt like someone was sitting on my chest. Thought I might be having a heart attack or something, and told the wife I think I need to go to the ER ; 4am, and she jumped out of bed - because I never go to the doctor so she knew it was serious.

no heat attack; they took a picture of my chest (CT scan or whatever it's called) but noticed an odd thing at the bottom of the pic; so they took another one lower in my gut area. Found my gall bladder was YUGE........and, at that picture, they noticed 3 big blood clots in my lungs.

they said that it was a blessing the gall bladder caused me to go to the ER because the clots were in the danger zone...not good.

Got the gall bladder yanked out, thought they didn't want to do surgery right away becaues they put me on some super potent blood thinner for the clots. after a nearly a week in the PCU, they took me off the thinner for long enough to yank out the gall bladder and put in an IVC filter, then another few days in the PCU.

i guess I have a genetic mutation in my genes that makes me prone to clotting; so trucking was over, and blood thinners the rest of my life. good times.


the other two close calls were motorcycle wrecks; 1st, just a cracked rib and broken bone in my hand; 2nd time was just road rash but no broken bones. Helmet was on both times. 1st time, abotu a quarter sized chunk was missing from the back of the helmet. 2nd time, the back of the helmet was caved in /cracked. Would've been dead both times had it not been for the helmet, I'm sure of it.