Recently I spit into a little plastic tube and sent it off to 23andMe. I sprang for the $200 DNA test because it was a fast, affordable way to detect genes relating to hereditary thrombophelia — a tendency to clot. I was interested because, in early October 2018, I had experienced a pulmonary embolism — in layman’ terms, clot(s) […]
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1) Tales my Fitbit didn’t tell
Safe at the ER… then my heart rate plummets I obviously survived the morning run on October 6, though I walked most of the second half of my four mile “run.” After lunch, I talked with my kids about what I described as my “odd health development.” They suggested I go immediately to the emergency […]