Injury

In August 2024, I experienced growing weakness in my legs after a hamstring injury. I had a pain in my lower back and almost complete numbness in my hamstrings. Gradually these symptoms worsened to the point where I needed help to stand on my own. Around the beginning of March 2025, I made an appointment…

I’m Jason Armitage’s mother, Faye. I’m writing this because he is severely disabled: paralyzed from the nose down and speech impaired. Blood clots in young people often get misdiagnosed and symptoms are routinely dismissed, as was the case when we visited the ER after a soccer game with then-7-year-old Jason. He had collided …

I went on a strenuous hike and my whole body was sore afterwards. A few days later, the soreness subsided everywhere except for my left calf. I thought I had a muscle strain injury. A few days later, the pain got worse, and I could barely walk, so I went to urgent care. I knew…

As told by his mother, Amy My son Nickolas first developed superficial blood clots after fracturing his leg in 2019. He took baby aspirin and had no issues after his leg was healed until the fall of 2020 when he developed the blood clots again. He had no trauma to cause them. He went to…

I wrapped my leg around a chair while walking by it on January 16, 2025 and fell. My right leg immediately bruised and swelled, so I went to the emergency room. X-rays showed a contusion to the bone. My leg was bandaged and I was sent on my way. As time wore on, my leg…

As told by her sister, Vanessa Brenda passed away on January 10, 2025, at 36. After almost three months of waiting, our family finally learned the cause of her death: pulmonary embolism due to lower extremity deep vein thrombosis. I’d heard of this condition before but never thought someone her age could be affected. The…

On March 31, 2023, while playing high school softball, an opposing player slid into me, breaking my tibia and fibula. I was taken to a nearby hospital via ambulance where I underwent surgery the next morning. My leg had some swelling over the next couple of months, but it was never bothersome until June 8.…

I fully tore my ACL and partially tore my MCL and meniscus in March of 2024 playing volleyball. I first started developing blood clots in mid-April 2024 before my knee surgery. I started feeling nauseas, but ignored it, thinking it was from my menstrual cycle. The signs started coming one after the other: purple discoloration…

In March 2011, I had a C-section and developed a superficial clot in my left leg, My treatment was compression socks and I felt better after a week. Years later, on March 30, 2024, I had a fall from an electric scooter. All my weight fell on my left leg, but somehow, I got up…

On Christmas Eve 2023, I slipped on ice and broke my kneecap. I spent eight weeks in a splint and kept my leg elevated. Two weeks later, I experienced shortness of breath and chest pain suddenly. I went to the ER and was diagnosed with a submassive bilateral PE with right heart strain. I spent…