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Originally Posted by GrantDawg
I have had a sore throat for the last several days, really ever since working out in the smoke from the forest fires a couple hundred miles away. It hadn't gotten to where it was veey painful. The last two nights I had a hard time sleeping, and this morning I woke up with a low grade fever. I figured I need to go to Urgent Care just to make sure I didn't have strep throat or Covid. When I got to Urgent Care I suddenly lost my ability to breath, and my blood pressure crashed. One ambulance ride and several tests later, I have a pulmonary embolism along with slight pneumonia. They have admitted me for or a day, maybe two. They shot me up with blood thinners and antibiotics. That sore throat might have saved my life.
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Yoinks.
And having just had discussions with family members in two states about a weird bug making the rounds the past couple weeks that is typified by a sore throat & "congestion in the throat" , I'm struck by just how easily you could have blown this off.