Thinner Blood, Fuller Life: Blood Thinner Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe taking blood thinners, from warfarin to newer tablets and daily injections. Writers came to them through an irregular heartbeat found at a bus driver's work medical or by a smartwatch, clots after a long flight, a knee replacement, a broken thigh bone, COVID or chemotherapy, a mechanical heart valve, a stroke, three lost pregnancies, or no reason anyone could find. They include a chef, a long-haul trucker, a night-shift nurse, a netball player, a nineteen-year-old student, an anticoagulation clinic nurse turned patient, an eighty-six-year-old told she was too old for her tablet, and a wife keeping her husband's doses in an exercise book, from Swansea to Osaka and Karachi to Montana. The stories cover testing at the kitchen table, switching from warfarin and missing the clinic, injections through pregnancy, a reaction to heparin, a small plug placed in a pouch of the heart, ablation, a colonoscopy and four extractions, salad, natto, wine and herbal capsules, heavy periods, the price at the pharmacy counter, travel with a yellow book in a passport, and the last tablet of a course. Some writers had serious bleeds, including a slow bleed behind a headache that would not quit, and one plumber learned what skipped weekend doses can lead to.

Who it's for

For anyone newly handed a prescription for a blood thinner, long used to one, or helping a parent or partner keep track of doses, tests and warning signs.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 255 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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