Pulmonary embolisms, I do not recommend

Since everybody is fiddling around searching for stuff to read, thought Id recount my past couple weeks.?ÿ
2 weeks ago, after a couple of sleepless nights in the recliner, went to the Dr. for the stabbing pain I was having in my back, right side about midway up. Couldn't get comfortable in any position, taking much more than a shallow breath felt like getting stabbed with an ice pick. Soreness had worked its way up over shoulder and started down right chest. Figured he was going to say it was a kidney stone or gall stone, but pee test didn't show anything. When he came back in he said he thought it might be a bulging disk pressing on a nerve. Ive had that before, same kind of pain in different spot. So he gave me a shot of cortisone and sent me to local hospital for chest xray to double check for something else. By the time I got done with the xray the pain was about gone. Had also written a prescription for prednisone and one for Percocet.?ÿ
When I stopped to pick those up, they said he was going to have to reauthorize the narcotic to something else, so I got prednisone and went home. No pain that night, so called Dr. next morning and told him to cancel the Percocet, besides I still had some from about a year ago I could use if needed.?ÿ
All was well until last Tuesday night when the pain in my back returned at a more intense level than before. About 4am I figured Id try the narcotics, and by 6:30 I felt better. Got up, took a shower, fixed breakfast, and about halfway thru I suddenly felt nauseated. I stepped out on the deck to get a breath of fresh air, and immediately had to puke over the rail into the shrubbery. I then discovered I couldnt move, not my head, not anything, without having to throw up. Finally got laid down on the deck and laid there for about an hour, until it started to sprinkle. ?ÿBack was still spasming if I moved. ?ÿ(As a side note, my wife was on a job in Michigan and the closest kid is 2 hours away).?ÿ
I managed to crawl back in the door, dry heaving in the process, and laid back down on the tile kitchen floor. Laid there for another hour until I finally was able to sit up. Couldnt hardly talk because every shallow breath would catch, that would cause me to cough, and coughing with a back problem is not pleasant. The ?ÿdoc, couldn't see me til 1:15. So I managed to get to the Lazy Boy and sit real still until then. Managed to get there, was somewhat more mobile by then. After he checked me out, he asked if I was by myself, then told me to get in the truck and drive straight to the emergency room at Baptist Health in Paducah, about an hour away. He mentioned that it sounded like I might be throwing blood clots. Got there at 2:30, they kept running tests, giving me morphine, which I never could tell had much affect on the pain, taking xrays, cat scans, ultrasounds, giving breathing treatments, until finally the cat scan showed a blood clot in my right lung. Ultrasound found one in my left leg where it probably came from. No idea how that got there, they said it was too long since hip surgery for that to be the cause, havent had any injury, havent been on an airplane or sat on a long trip, nothing. So they started me on blood thinner and finally Friday morning the back pain suddenly went away. Sent me home taking Eliquis, no restrictions, feel fine now. Went in to work today, but not much going on because of weather, going to work from home the rest of the week. At least it wasnt the coronavirus.?ÿ