Things are looking up (by alaric)
Sarah went in for a scan yesterday to look for blood clots in her lungs - and they didn't see any!
So either the past week of anticoagulants have dissolved them, or the clots are/where only in her legs, or it wasn't clots at all.
But she's definitely looking better; she's getting more lively again, and gets breathless less easily!
The scan was interesting. It was one of those where they inject you with a radioisotope, then use a sensitive imaging scintillation detector to get a map of where the isotope has ended up in your body.
They have to be careful doing that with pregnant women. Sarah had to have a reduced dose of the isotope, and thus spend much longer lying still in the machine to get a good image due to the decreased radiation output. People who had the full dose aren't allowed to go near pregnant women, so she had to be segregated from the other people in the waiting room and so on!
And she came back wearing:
The Family | alaric | 
Sat 9th Jul 2005 9:41 am
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