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A stranger emailed me a warning about blood clots. Days later, my friend died from one. - Kyle Munson
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2017 Mar 27, 5:15pm 936 views 1 comment
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2017 Mar 27, 5:33pm
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2017 Mar 27, 5:33pm
A stranger emailed me a warning about blood clots. Days later, my friend died from one.
Lesson learned: if any of your friends mention receiving an e-mail warning about blood clots, tell all their friends to unfriend them ASAP. The life you save may be your own.
Robertson wrote to me March 1, the start of Blood Clot Awareness Month. He even added bold text for emphasis.
“I'm asking for a story,†he pleaded. “A story not about me, but about the awareness that is needed. Too many people are dying. If you were to walk up to anyone on the street and ask them what a pulmonary embolism was … or asked about blood clots in general, they would be clueless.â€
Robertson, 53, went on to explain that little more than a month before writing me he had been lucky to survive a pulmonary embolism (PE), a blood clot that had passed through his heart and lodged in his lung but didn’t kill him.
Less than two weeks later, I was blindsided by my timely, compelling and utterly horrible hook.
A good friend of mine since our college days, Scot Squires, keeled over and died from the very same thing: an undetected blood clot. While on a walk with his 12-year-old daughter.
Full Article: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/columnists/kyle-munson/2017/03/24/kyle-munson-stranger-emailed-me-warning-blood-clots-days-later-my-friend-died-one/99396008/
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