![]() ![]() I’ll just give you a few of the more common risk factors: hospital stays put you at greater risk people with cancer or people undergoing orthopedic surgery of any kind: hip replacement, or I mentioned the girl with the broken ankle obesity smoking age - the older you get, the greater your risk women, actually, are at significantly higher risk when they’re taking the birth control pill, or when they’re pregnant, or if they’re on hormone replacement therapy. That’s so important because preventing the clot is the best way to not be one of the statistics of this condition. Q: What are the important facts people should know about this condition?īloom: When we do our events we encourage people to find out their level of risk for DVT. For me, it was just a microcosm of the work I’m doing. Two of the people who came to the hospital for a risk assessment ended up being admitted into the hospital with a clot that had hit the lungs, and they lived. The flip side of this story is that then that day we did our presentation and I went on the local news. I know that sounds crazy, but when I do these events, I do go on the local media, and I speak at the hospitals, and I try to get my message out there so that people will pay attention to their bodies and to the warning signs and symptoms. And I had this horrible sense of getting there too late. By the time the ambulance got her from the road and drove her into the hospital, she was gone. That same week, a 31-year-old woman pulled over to the side of the road with shortness of breath. But then, by the time she reached the shortness of breath stage, they rushed her into the hospital, but she didn’t make it, even to arrive in the emergency room. One was a 13-year-old girl, who had broken her ankle, had leg pain, but of course, she had a broken ankle, so no one thought anything about it. The day that I arrived, the doctor with whom I was giving the presentation told me that that very week he had two DOAs, dead on arrivals. I was in Sacramento doing an awareness event at a hospital. Q: Have you had a particularly moving experience, while working with this cause?īloom: There’s been so many moving experiences that it’s hard to pick one, but I’ll tell you one very recently. Since 2000, over $300,000 has been raised by this Women’s Health Symposium for the Iris Cantor Women’s Health Center. And I’m just completely honored that they asked me to speak about my personal experience with DVT to try to have my story resonate with people, so that people understand that it can impact anyone at anytime in their lives. The Women’s Health Symposium is a wonderful lecture series. Q: Can you tell me a little bit about your involvement with the Women’s Health Symposium at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell, and why the Educational Resource Center at the Iris Cantor Women’s Health Center has been chosen to benefit from the event? I had never heard of it before I got the call that he died from it. But to find out it was something that could be prevented, and something that effects so many people, was news to me. ![]() We had three little girls at home at the time. They tried to revive him, to no avail, and it was because the clot, that we didn’t even know was there, had traveled up to the lungs, and hit the lungs and took his life. His photographer looked over and David had collapsed on the desert floor. One morning they were going to roll and take Baghdad. So, unbeknownst to us, the clot developed. I’ve oftentimes referred to that clot in his body as the bomb that lied within his own body. The bitter irony is that he did lose his life covering this war but it wasn’t a bomb or a bullet, but actually something inside of his own body, it was this blood clot. He was with the 3rd Infantry Division, covering the war live, as it happened. Q: Could you tell me about your involvement with this cause?īloom: Back in 2003, my husband, David Bloom, was an NBC News Correspondent. ![]()
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