July Swimming

[Selkie]

TriB - It's great to see that you're back and recovering. If you don't mind my asking, how are they treating your DVT (my husband had a DVT that went to his lungs--close call. Turns out that he has a genetic clotting disorder).

Enjoy your new suits, Kacie and GLC! I scooped up several on sale recently.

Decided to start working with a swim coach because my technique desperately needs help. My first session is Sunday.

[roadie gal]

I went back to the lake yesterday. It was perfect: no wind, no boaters when I first started. I swam 46 minutes, about 1.25 miles (as per Google Earth). It would have been a bit less time except the boaters had started to come out on my way back, so I stopped a few times to sight on them and to make sure they saw me.

The water has gotten warm enough that I'm going to swim in my sleeveless wetsuit instead of the fullsuit next time.

[tribogota]

Selkie:
am on 2.5 mg of warfarin every day, THAT is the extent of the treatment so far. Supposedly I get a doppler next month, but I can already tell that it is NOT cleared up from the last one (deep vein completely blocked), I can tell, cause when I swim fast instead of steady and long, my leg throbs and turns purple, also when I sit with it unelevated. Not sure there is any other treatment besides warfarin....
Am walking about 20 minutes a day and spinning 20 mins, plus the swim, and the DVT seems fine when I do that.
My DVT is most probably not genetic and was caused by the impact and trauma to the hip/femur.

[Selkie]

Tri -- My husband's clot took a long time to go away, too, and he was hospitalized, on a heparin drip and prior to that, he was doing lovamox shots into his belly (the last did no good in preventing the Pulmonary Embolism). Because the clot was so resistant and they wanted him out of the hospital, they put an IVC filter in near his kidney, in case more pieces broke off from the clot or it moved.

It took them awhile to get my husband's INR level "therapeutic" for the warfarin. According to my DH, they have you on a low dose of cumadin -- he takes twice that amount daily to keep him clot free. Of course, he's a big boy. ;-)

Thank God your clot is a result of the trauma and not due to a genetic flaw. Warfarin scares the bejesus out of me. Sending you lots of clot dissolving karma!

[Bike Chick]

Tribogota, it's so good to see you posting again and I'm glad that you are starting back with training. Best wishes to you in your recovery!