Thanks for the call!

I got a call from the Doctor today... she said that I don't have to wear the socks anymore. WOOHOO! I can actually see my legs.. yay! and I can wear flip flops! She said that my blood clot still showed up on the ultra sound so I still have to be careful with my legs. The clot extends from the bottom of my knee all the way to the top of my inner thigh. My leg hurts when I'm up and moving, so I still have to take things slow. They still don't have the results from the test showing if I have some genetic thing going on. But my PT/INR blood test results that I have been getting every week are really good. That means that the blood thinner that I take every day is working and that I am on the right dose. Now I only have to get my blood drawn every other week. We are going to a Hematologist (a blood specialist) on Monday and I sure hope he doesn't make me put those socks back on.

Happy Halloween Everyone!!

Medical Update

Here is a quick medical update: I went to the doctor on Thursday morning. They are always suprised at how young I am for having blood clots. I think it is always funny how the nurses or people that take your weight and height ask me questions like, "How did you get a blood clot?" I always think in my head, "Thats why I am here...Why don't you tell me how I got a blood clot?" :) But I just say, "I don't know... it's kinda crazy." Anyways... They took tons of blood and now we are just waiting for the results from all the different tests they are doing. I am also going in for another ultrasound on my leg at the beginning of next week. The records that were in Romanian and German just weren't making sense. But the doctor thinks the blood clots are probably linked to my genetics... thank you mom and dad! She said something about a Sector 5 gene... I don't really understand it all. I can't really do anything too exciting because a piece of the blood clot could still break off and go to my lung or to my brain. So I'm still hanging out in these great compression stockings just waiting for more information from the doctor. I'm just so happy to be home! Life is good!

I'm a Rock Star!

I just wanted to publicly thank HTH Worldwide Insurance. They flew my mom and I home from Vienna and took care of me while I was outside of the States. It took them a while to get everything worked out, but they kept at it and got us home safe. They also did a very good job at picking our seats. For our 11 hour long flight back to the states, we got to sit in what I like to call "Rock Star Class." It's the class above First Class. It was soooooo cool. The seats turned into beds and we didn't have those dippy blankets... oh no... we had fluffy pillows and down comforters! Crazy! Can you imagine flying like this all the time?? We also got free drinks. My mom and I ended up getting ice water every time and the guy serving us commented on how adventurous we were (if he only knew). I think a couple of the other guys in "Rock Star Class" were close to intoxication. Well, I can't really describe the greatness of this above First Class class, so here are some pictures:

AMAZING!

Pretty much what you see in the movies... and how you imagine Rock Stars travelling.

Woo Hoo

We are home!! Details tomorrow...

We're in London!

Yay! We have started our journey home. We are staying at a Hilton right by the airport for our quick get-away in the morning. The lady, Ana Maria, that checked us into the hotel is from Iasi, Romania. That is where I was! She just got back from visiting Romania two days ago and she talked about how she was at the Hala Centrala! I lived right across the street from the Hala Centrala! It was so crazy! I told her about how was I was working over there in the hospitals and orphanages and she thought it was pretty cool. After talking to her for a minute, she changed our room to a nicer one and gave us access to the Executive Lounge! So cool! We get free drinks and snacks, internet, and breakfast in the morning. She also gave us her card just in case we need anything else. What a nice lady! I pretty much have the hook ups...

Now Wednesday is the day...

So we have had a little bit of another delay and we will not arrive back in the States until Wednesday. Austrian Airlines will not allow me to fly on their planes for another three weeks with a blood clot. How mean?! We are flying through a different airline, but they don't have flights back to good ole America every day. So we have to wait for Wednesday before we will finally make it home. The call of bad news came from the insurance company shortly before our dinner arrived. I was already super bummed about not getting home until Wednesday, but then I saw what dinner was. The main dish: some vegetable mixture quiche looking thing, the side dish: pickled beets, the dessert: I still don't know. Veggies....(yuck) just aren't my thing. It was way more than I could take and after staring at my supposed meal for a few minutes, I just burst into tears. After dodging the nurses because we weren't sure if they would let me walk that far, my mom took me down to the cafe on the first floor and bought me the closest thing we could find to a ham and cheese sandwich and then a cherry yogurt, too. It was so nice to have something more familar! Thanks mom! After my mini meltdown we did finally recieve our flight plans via email. We get to leave the hospital tomorrow, much to my delight! I really don't think I could stay just one more day. We are flying to London tomorrow afternoon and we will spend the night there and then fly straight home Wednesday morning. I am so excited! We are really going to leave!