If it wasn't for bad luck...
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I have had a rough couple of weeks and tonight just added insult to injury. My wife has a blood clot in her lung and spent a few days in the hospital. They let her come home and 2 days later she has an arterial dissection in her carotid artery and had a small stroke. She is home now and doing a little better but she has a lot of healing left to do. Thank god she was on blood thinners from the blood clot when she had the stroke because it made the effects of the stroke less. They said they would treat her with the same blood thinners for the clot as they would for the stroke so she was kind of lucky there. I have been tinkering with my truck a little and tonight I hot wired the ksb and took the truck for a ride and what a difference. The truck had a good bit more power and it broke a motor mount and the fan destroyed the radiator. I guess it could be worse at least my wife will be able to make a full recovery just gonna take some time.
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I hope that your wife has a speedy and complete recovery...Mark
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Hope your wife's condition improves dramatically.
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Thanks everyone the prayers are appreciated. She is looking a little better every day. It was a week yesterday since the stroke and her facial features are almost back to normal but her speech is taking a little longer to be normal.
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Did she also develop Horner's syndrome ? My mother in law's cat developed it after a neck surgery, and from what I've read, can be a result of your wife's initial diagnosis of Internal Carotid Artery Dissection (ICAD). Horner's syndrome itself is not life threatening or anything, but I was curious if her symptoms entailed this as well. Horner's syndrome is now being found to have been a leading cause of ICAD, and is now not considered simply idiopathic, but a "sign" of a real internal issue that otherwise would have been brushed off as nothing important.
"it has been recognised that a leading cause is internal carotid artery dissection (ICAD) due to the involvement of the pericarotid sympathetic plexus which is stretched or damaged by inflammation following the dissection.3 It is now clear that ICAD has been under‐diagnosed as a cause of Horner's syndrome, mainly because of the difficulty in accurately imaging the carotid arteries."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2577553/