Serena Williams. Okay so maybe we don't have a lot in common, but there is one big issue that we do share. And that is a dreaded blood clot. Her situation is much more serious then mine but she is a healthy twenty something who happened to have a surgery and decide to hop on a plane. Probably not the smartest move she ever did because the blood clot grew, but I now share something with one of the most famous tennis stars of our generation.
When I first heard about her pulmonary embolism, I could not believe it. This was exactly what the doctor told me to look out for that first day at the hospital. In the above article that I linked, it says that about 6 million people develop blood clots in a year. Serena and I are two of those people. I begin to wonder if she will start to take blood thinners; Dad and I agree she won't have to take the generic but get the brand name. I wonder if she will begin to worry about INR levels. Yes, I know these are odd things to wonder, but I'm glad to know I'm not the only weirdo to have blood clots at age twenty.
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