Dr. Serena Williams - when you know your own body best - this was serious

http://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/10/health/serena-williams-birth-c-section-olympia-bn/index.html
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Not wanting to worry her visiting mother, Williams stepped into the hall and flagged a nearby nurse, insisting that she needed an IV with heparin, a blood thinner, and a CT scan to check for clots.

The nurse believed that medications might have befuddled Williams, Vogue says, but a doctor arrived -- only to perform an ultrasound, and not the CT scan that Williams believed she needed.
The ultrasound revealed nothing, and according to Vogue, Williams reiterated: "I told you, I need a CT scan and a heparin drip." Obeying her request for the scan, the medical team found several small blood clots in her lungs and immediately began the medication.
Williams' physical instincts were correct. Still, a six-day medical crisis followed.
First, her C-section wound reopened after a coughing spell caused by the clots in her lungs.
'Gentle' C-sections are growing in popularity

Next, she returned to surgery to correct the lung clot, called a pulmonary embolism, and her medical team found a large hematoma, or clotted blood in the tissue, in her abdomen. The cause: the blood thinner she'd resumed.

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She could have died. Note- she still wants #24 and #25