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Things I Lost In The Fire
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Mental Health
It’s around 6 months since the pulmonary embolism and while recovery is going ok there’s still some things not right.
I’ve come to think of them as things I’ve lost in the fire. They’re not coming back or at least not without hard work.
I know what tried to kill me
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Mental Health
I finally have some closure on the PE that turned my life upside down at the end of October last year.
I have it written on a piece of NHS branded paper. It’s innocuously included in a list of other ailments from a consultant only vaguely related the rest of the bullshit I’m having to deal with (health wise not NHS they’ve been ok/great).
Four months on from my Pulmonary Embolism
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Health
“You did it proper.”
Consultant
Adding to my list of things I never want to hear again.
Those words were proceeded by my consultant showing me the images of my chest and the two bright white spots that were the clots that nearly killed me.