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♥ Words To Run By ~ Meet Sara ♥

♥Meet Sara♥

Another survivor shares her story of inspiration, strength, and overcoming the challenges of living with a blood disorder.

How does she heep her wits about her? She RUNS!

I want to introduce you to Sara. A wife, a Marathon runner….A SURVIVOR!!

Sara’s Story ⇨ Survivors Share

I’m a runner, writer, dog-mom, and self-proclaimed hot sauce connoisseur.

I’m also a survivor raising awareness daily about the devestating effects of blood clots.

Words To Run By

My story is not that different than anyone else. I graduated from college, started my first real job as a child welfare caseworker – a field completely unrelated to my degree, of course. I got married on 07/07/07 and we adopted two dogs – Grace and Sadie. Back then, I would have told you I lived a great life, until I discovered – and not without a whole lot of things going really wrong first – that there is more to life and more to me. I wanted more, I needed more, but I had no idea where or with what to start. 

The Clot Must Be Fought – Our Stories

So many lives….so many stories… Other survivors share:

Our Stories @ The Clot Must Be Fought

Affairs Of The Heart

Blood Is Thicker Than….

As we celebrate love’s ‘holiday’ tomorrow, remember that it’s all an affair of the heart and blood is thicker than water….

and for some, our own lifesourcefights our very existence it supports.

We are strong!We are SURVIVORS!!! ♥

 

Go Red For Women ♥ American Heart Association

Power To End Stroke

Stop The Clot

 

I’m A Survivor!!!!

My current battle with my genetic clotting disorder..I survived!!!

Christmas Day 2012:

Just barely three weeks ago…I cheated death by surviving the coroner’s ‘bread and butter’. I threw a saddle clot which stopped my heart for an unknown amount of time…but merely seconds on a clock. This disease/disorder/deficiency will eventually kill me unless human accident gets me first. I’m trying to find others to gather with me in searching for more answers to many unknown questions and alternative preventative treatments. If not a cure in my lifetime, than a cure for my son and his unborn children….Please help me in the fight against this silent killer

Post PE precautions where in order ESPECIALLY when the Orkin man showed up for his monthly visits at my work facility…

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This is my original story:

 I am 2nd generation ATIII Congenital having my first DVT/VTE at age 19 which wasn’t diagnosed immediately as I was pregnant at the time. It wasn’t until after the delivery of my son and only after the insistent urging of my mother, that the possibility of my having this at that age was grudgingly given in too and after a very painful venogram, was finally diagnosed and was not just venous, but arterial. Why was my mother so insistent about what it was? It was because she had lived with recurring DVT/VTE’s for over half her life with her first being diagnosed directly after having given birth to me. My mother was the first generation, having skipped a generation through my grandfather. My sister is also an active ATIII Congenital. As of two weeks ago, I thought the only worry or concern I would have would be that any future granddaughters of mine would someday become active through my son, as in the years that I have researched ATIII the most common and recurring thread is that, usually, men are carriers not actively diagnosed. That has all now changed as of June 6, 2011 when my 22 year-old son was rushed to the emergency room for the third time in just as many days. He, once again, had a CT scan done of his head which revealed something perplexing to the physicians. The doctors were stumped until I arrived at the hospital where he had been taken and told them about our family genetic disorder. The final diagnosis was cerebral sinus venous thrombosis and accompanying brain bleed concurrent with stroke and  seizures secondary to ATIII Congenital. He too has now been tested and diagnosed with ATIII Congenital.