From vacation to hospital!

Hi friends!
Last week my husband and I went to Charlottesville, VA for vacation.  We stayed in a bed and breakfast for the first time. I recommend it was amazing!  To explain quick back story, my daughter and husband decided to start training to run a half marathon, I'm just trying to run a 5k.  Ok so on with the vacation story.  My husband started a training program, you run so far one day something else the next and slowly increase to the mileage you want to be at.  On Tuesday he went for a run from the bed and breakfast.  It was cold and a bit hilly, he has cold weather gear for this.  He started slowly and a bit of the way down the road he became short of breath then dizzy.  He returned to the bed and breakfast complaining of shortness of breath. He and I ran down the symptoms, he said it was just because he hasn't ran like that for awhile. So we went on our day. A wine tour! A driver picked us up drove us to a few wineries.  The bed and breakfast fixed a picnic lunch, amazing food.  We returned from our tour, I was a bit tipsy to say the least.  On Wednesday, we went out on our own for a few sites and yes more wineries and breweries.  Hubby did say I'm still breathing hard.  I said we could change our plans but he once again decided to blow it off.  So we toured and found ourselves in Waynesboro, VA, where I found an amazing cross stitch shop called the Cross Stitch Station. I shamefully bought more stash, but not nearly as much as I would have liked. I did practice self control.  Husband was becoming more and more uncomfortable. We returned to the bed and breakfast for the evening. On Thursday we were returning home, hubby said I think I should see my doctor. I called from the road. The doctor's office said they couldn't see him until NEXT year, strange right?  So I called my doctor they could see him at 1pm. So we hurried back to Chesapeake. The doctor gave him a great check up. She ran some blood test and said she would have the results of them by evening time, for him to go home a rest. She called about dinner time at said you need to go to the emergency room pretty quick. We dropped everything.  In the emergency room they did a CT scan of his chest, results he had several blood clots in his lungs. They get there by a blood clot for somewhere else in the body releasing and passing through the heart a spraying the lungs.  He was admitted monitored and then transferred to another hospital to have a lung catheterization.  He spent two days hooked up to about sixteen different things.  This is now Monday morning he is breathing better.  They took everything out but the blood thinners.  Later Monday they moved him from the icu to a regular room. He was feeling much better.  I got to bring him home on Tuesday, Thank God!  He has to be on blood thinners for a long time now. But he is still here to take them.  The doctors said he was so very lucky that when it passed through his heart he lived.  I know this was a long post not about stitching but I needed to trying get things out of my head.

Few tips... Have things checked out that are not normal for you.  Hubby has no reason to have theses clots, he doesn't smoke, no family history, no trauma, no long plane rides, and not does not practice a sedentary  life style.

Thanking God for his blessings!

Cindy