"Lucky illness".kayt00 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 8:54 pmIndeed, the only reason it was caught in my younger brother is because he broke out in a rash after a shallow dive in Mexico which had never happened to him before and he's dived multiple times. Evidently the rash was due to nitrogen in his blood breaking smaller capillaries in his skin as it was never expelled through his lungs.madwildcat wrote: ↑Thu Jun 10, 2021 8:44 pm Praying for you man. PFO is one of those silent killer things that I keep hoping will eventually fall under some of our standard testing once technology gets good enough to make it cheap for everyone to be tested. That tiny hole makes it to where small clots that would have been caught in your lungs can make it to your brain and cause the strokes in younger people.
We have a family friend that recently benefited from a "Lucky Illness". Having an MRI from the earlier episode allowed the Doc to see the rate of growth of a benign brain tumor, leading to the decision to remove it "right now", rather than wait and see. Mysterious ways, indeed.
Prayers for your full recovery, kayt00.