July 20, 2012
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Wednesday morning I made a trip to urgent care to have my thumb repaired. I was canning pickles and sliced off a chunk of my thumb on the mandolin.
It’s a problem any time I bleed because I take Warfarin daily to prevent blood clots, and I take 81mg aspirin to prevent heart attacks. So, when I bleed it’s harder than normal to stop it. I have to have my blood tested every four weeks or so to make certain that my INR doesn’t get below 2.0 or higher than 3.0. Last week it was 3.7, which makes blood flow even faster. — By the way, Warfarin is also used in rat poison.
Yesterday I went back to have it checked and it looks like everything will be okay eventually. I’ll be staying off blood thinners for a few days.
It’s difficult not having the use of the thumb on your right hand. You just don’t realize how much you use your thumbs.
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Sorry to hear about your thumb, Paul. I’ve been taking 75mg Aspirin for 40years now, but curiously it does not seem
to affect my blood clotting time; I heal very quickly. I guess Warfarin would make a difference though. Just make sure
you don’t get under her indoors’ thumb though !