Back yard mechanic

[ronlock]

Thanks for sharing that Earl.  Particularly since you got to  do
it after recovering!    This problem has also gotten some
publicity in reference to sitting still in airliners for several hours.

Ron  Lockhart
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Earl Vincent 
  To: nsrca 
  Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 8:22 PM
  Subject: Back yard mechanic


  I would like to share something with you guys that has nothing to do with your airplane except maybe never getting to fly it again 

  Last week end was our contest in Myrtle Beach and I will leave the report on that up to Buff Miller, this is about being so sure you
  know something it almost does you in. Eric Henderson had come down on Thursday to go out to our field on Friday and do some
  practicing, I had taken off from work and was planning on helping our club cut the grass etc. for the contest on Saturday. I woke
  up on Friday with a pretty good knot in my left shoulder so much that when I took a deep breath it let me know it was there. I will
  try and make this as short as I can, took Tylenol over week end seemed to be ok, Sunday morning started coughing up a little
  blood, now I have had walking pneumonia before and symptoms were the same so I figure I will go to the contest and then go to 
  the hospital in the afternoon. Said goodbye to Eric and Michelle and went home, when I told my wife Carol that I was coughing
  blood she went nuts on me and we went to the hospital, me still thinking I had the start of pneumonia no big deal go get an xray and some antibiotics.

  Now to the feeling really luck and really stupid at the same time, chest xray come out clean, blood gas ok, electrocardiagram(please no spell check guys) ok, me  really confused, Doctor say Hey you may have a blood clot in your lung. After a catscan
  with some heavey duty dye pumped in , yep whole bunch of cartio embelisims? in BOTH LUNGS and yea a lot of people DIE
  from these if they get stuck in the wrong place. After the past week in the hospital on blood thinners , which I have to stay on for
  3 months, then go on aspirin 1 a day I am feeling fine again. 

  The reason I typed all this is the main reason the doctors told me for all of this trouble was the 6+ round trips I have made to
  NJ and back since moving down to Myrtle Beach. I have a bad habit of driving straight through stopping only for fuel and nature when needed, bad move! always stop ever couple of hours and walk around, this time of year many of us will be taking long trips
  to contest, the Nats and if your blood is  a little thick to start off with you may have the same thing happen, it took me by suprize
  although I had a weird pain travel thtough my leg about a month prior and it went away or so I thought, Treat yourselves like you
  treat your pattern stuff and every thing should be ok.
  FYI
  Earl Vincent
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