Anecdote, Jan 30, 2010

A friend of mine is in the hospital with a large pulmonary embolism and a gastric bleed. He is blind, and just has a thumb and forefinger on each hand, and can't walk. They put a filter up in his vena cava yesterday to catch the clots. He lay on a stainless steel table all day while they did it. Later, he said, "I'm doing better now."