My phone buzzed. It was Cindy. “What’s wrong?” she wanted to know.
I was in the emergency room at Great River Medical Center in West Burlington. I had just been told I had bilateral pulmonary embolisms, i.e., blood clots in both lungs, lots of them. The physician assistant who told me let me hold his hand. It was comforting. “You’ll be on blood thinner the rest of your life,” he said.
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