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Just got home from the hospital. Got up at 4 am this morning to take partner in for a femoral arteriogram - she's been having lots of leg pain & weakness - suspected thrombus/blockages.
Right leg arteries cleared via balloon agioplasty & stents.
Left leg arteries totally occluded - will need bypass graft surgery later.
After the procedure, the doc didn't apply pressure long enuff on the catheter site - lots of bleeding - then huge pressure bandage, followed by her being strapped flat to bed with leg immobilized for 6 hours. Finally got home - we're both exhausted. Cats were slightly hysterical.
Side note: I had taken my K2, and surveyed the waiting area for reading devices: 1 Nook, 5 laptops/netbooks, 6 phones. K2 did fine under subdued hospital lighting - in really dim areas I just increased the text size.
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