July 24, 2022
My health has been like a roller coaster since December 2020. I have fallen several times. Most of the time I am short of breath. It is hard to exercises on those days. I am officially 73 years old.
I had quite an interested evening a few weeks ago. I was almost ready to go to dinner when I began to pick up my foot to put my shoe on, when all of a sudden on the outside near the bottom of my left foot a small vein pop squirting blood everywhere.
We did all of the following:
Elevate your leg above your heart to slow the bleeding. Apply gentle, consistent pressure over the vein. Once bleeding is under control, wrap the vein with a bandage.
We couldn't get the bleeding to stop. My husband called 911. Firemen arrived and it took some time to get the bleeding to stop. They did all of what we did, but wrapped my foot tighter. They instructed me to continue keeping my leg and foot elevated, stating if it begins to bleed again, go to the ER and have them stitch it up. I cancelled the ambulance.
Fortunately it stop bleeding but was quite sore for 3 days. I lost over a cup or more possible close to a pint of blood, my husband said. He cleaned it all up.
The weather here in Southwest Florida has been hot, hot and more hot with the humidity extremely high. This really takes my breath away. So I don't have the energy like I use to.
I am tired more than normal . I have not been able to exercise like I use to.
I am hoping this weather will improve and I will begin to breath better.
I have not given up.