You were headhunted, TLD, for all your merits
Thank you for replying.
I hope you'll keep an eye on what we're doing and how
so we don't mess up too much

That is true ? There is no particular law? No need for a particular vaccine? There is no obligation to wear a muzzle either? I always feel like torturing him when I put this to him ...

And if not, she looks good on your tablet! But I have much simpler, I ask Saphir12, and she tells me!

Good Morning Base Campers!
Now we have a Base Camp Hall of Fame.
We have listed the treks we made – more or less organized - since October 2017. I made a few one-woman-ones where deltavee chipped in (if you can call what he does something like ’chipping’ – just ask Capt. Joe of Minnesota Cruncher who discovered an earthquake in his graphs). Those are not listed. We shall do our best to keep the list shipshape.

You probably don’t want to hear more about my health issues, but I find this interesting on a broader measure. Doctors know a lot, most of them are specialized, which may mean that they have a tendency to wear blinkers. They are unable to see the complete picture. Noone assembles the puzzle. You have to do a lot of work yourself, and you have to present your results in the most gentle and considerate fashion to your health professionals of whom some have giant egos.

My legs are swollen. No suggestions from the doctors I have seen since I got sufficiently worried to discuss it with them has really fit the bill. None of them – and how should they – have the entire picture. I’m the one who has it. Patients are to a wide degree and for a number of reasons – valid and foolish – discouraged from using the internet for informing themselves. That I did yesterday, and I have continued today.

I have a monozyglot (inherited from one parent) Protein C Leiden Factor V (as in Roman V – five) which makes my blood three times more probable to coagulate into a blood clot than ’normal’ blood. Had it been heterozyglot (inherited from both parents) the risk would have been 13 times. I suspect the first sign came far back in 1989? on a car trip in Oregon. My ankle swelled. I went away overnight and I brushed it off. In 2001 we went on a roundtrip to Vietnam. Already at the layover in Bangkok something was wrong, and my legs – especially the right one – was swollen, red and hot. I spashed my legs in the swimming pools and draped myself with cold bottles from the minibar. Nothing helped until my return to the cold weather in Denmark and running around. Then in 2005 we went to Argentina and Chile and on the return flight my legs swelled up and did not let up. At the emergency ward they found a blood clot and gave me heparine for self injection. I was contacted by a blood specialist who ordered a Leiden Factor V test, and it was positive. The treatment is blood thinning tablets (rat poison in effect) taken according to the results of blood tests carried out weekly. I went through a very comprehensive class to learn to manage it myself – testing, adjusting doses, watching my diet (broccoli, spinach, and white and red cabbage are rich in vitamin K which should be limited – vitamin K is generated in the digestive tract for the most part - alcohol works as a blood thinner in it’s own right, informing my dentist and other 'invaders' and watching interactions with other medicines - even herbal ones which I never trusted anyway. So things must be balanced, but it’s no big deal once you get into the routine.

I have had swollen legs on and off many times since that blood clot and always suspected something was damaged as a consequence, but when I presented my elephant legs to doctors - even blood doctors - and gave them my lecture, they brushed me off.

For a couple of days I have done my own internet research, and it turns out that a condition called ’posttrombotic syndrome’ exists. It is something that hits 40-60% of DVT (deep vein thrombosis – blood clot in the leg) sooner or later.
So how can anybody NOT get that idea?
A cancer disease which I have, and/or estrogen supplements which I accepted to try after sincere reassurances put you at greater risk.
All of a sudden I have a medical explanation to support my own observations.
Am I glad? Not really. Am I sad? Yes, it feels that way.
I hope you can learn something from this.

From a Norwegian website:

EDIT: Several things plus a link to the Base Camp Hall of Fame
EDIT II: nobody -> anybody and then some
EDIT III: New Base Camp Hall of Fame link because deleting and reposting has consequenses

I'll come for a day or two. Drop a post in the SeriousCrunchers to remind me on the 19th (i'll get a email notice).

Will you be posting a link to join the team here?