2011 Lung Biopsy and Bronchoscope

2011 - January 14, – 10:00 AM, Central Baptist Hospital CBH Bldg D, Tower Elevators, Lung Biopsy

Jan 14, 2011 – 10:00 AM, Central Baptist Hospital           CBH Bldg E, Tower Elevators, 2^nd Floor, Bronchoscope

There are two procedures to be done today. I don’t have a good feeling about any of this. Today is January 14^th, it is forty one years to the day that my first husband, Harold, turned to me and said, “Bert, I don’t feel very well.” He then passed out and slumped over the wheel. I started screaming and trying to get the car stopped because we were at a four way intersection and were fixing to roll on into the middle of it.

There was a young man in the car behind us that noticed something wrong; he jumped out of his car and got our car stopped before it when on into the middle of the four way intersection. He helped me to get Harold to the hospital. Within half an hour he had died of a massive blood clot to the heart. I didn’t even have time to call the kids in to say goodbye.

NOTE: It was this happening, dying from a blood clot and being a free bleeder, that in later years allowed us children and grand children to find out that not only had he been a free bleeder, he had a rare form of it called Von Willebrand. Ten percent of all free bleeders have this. It goes into highs and lows; one time you could die from a scratch and the next time you could almost cut an arm off and bleed very little. Of that ten percent; ten percent of the females are not only carriers; they can be bleeders themselves. My nephew, Jason, just had twins born in July 2011. The boy, Ewen tested negative; and the girl, Cara, tested positive for Von Willebrand.