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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I would like to share something with you guys that
has nothing to do with your airplane except maybe never getting to fly it again
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Last week end was our contest in Myrtle Beach and I
will leave the report on that up to Buff Miller, this is about being so sure
you</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>know something it almost does you in. Eric
Henderson had come down on Thursday to go out to our field on Friday and do
some</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>practicing, I had taken off from work and was
planning on helping our club cut the grass etc. for the contest on Saturday. I
woke</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>up on Friday with a pretty good knot in my left
shoulder so much that when I took a deep breath it let me know it was there. I
will</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>try and make this as short as I can, took Tylenol
over week end seemed to be ok, Sunday morning started coughing up a
little</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>blood, now I have had walking pneumonia before and
symptoms were the same so I figure I will go to the contest and then go to
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>the hospital in the afternoon. Said goodbye to Eric
and Michelle and went home, when I told my wife Carol that I was
coughing</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>blood she went nuts on me and we went to the
hospital, me still thinking I had the start of pneumonia no big deal go get an
xray and some antibiotics.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Now to the feeling really luck and really stupid at
the same time, chest xray come out clean, blood gas ok, electrocardiagram(please
no spell check guys) ok, me really confused, Doctor say Hey you may have a
blood clot in your lung. After a catscan</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>with some heavey duty dye pumped in , yep whole
bunch of cartio embelisims? in BOTH LUNGS and yea a lot of people
DIE</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>from these if they get stuck in the wrong place.
After the past week in the hospital on blood thinners , which I have to stay on
for</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>3 months, then go on aspirin 1 a day I am feeling
fine again. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The reason I typed all this is the main reason
the doctors told me for all of this trouble was the 6+ round trips I have made
to</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>NJ and back since moving down to Myrtle Beach. I
have a bad habit of driving straight through stopping only for fuel and nature
when needed, bad move! always stop ever couple of hours and walk around, this
time of year many of us will be taking long trips</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>to contest, the Nats and if your blood is a
little thick to start off with you may have the same thing happen, it took me by
suprize</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>although I had a weird pain travel thtough my leg
about a month prior and it went away or so I thought, Treat yourselves like
you</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>treat your pattern stuff and every thing should be
ok.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>FYI</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Earl Vincent</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>