Janice Gealey
Advanced Member
I had to rush to NC on October 17th, 2015 because my daughter had blood clots hit her lung. I was there for 5 weeks to help with her recovery and my 7 year old granddaughter. I came home to NJ for 2 weeks and headed back to be there to help with Christmas. I was going to take my 19T HiLo but they had so much rain and her rental property looks like a swimming pool when it rains and my car had already been stuck once, so didn't take the camper. I am writing this because what caused the blood clots was genetic and I had to have my blood tested. Well I am a carrier, my granddaughter is clean and my younger daughter is being tested late January. (thanks to our health care system) The name of the blood test we needed was for "HOMOCYSTINE" which is an amino acid problem. My family tree consists of: Portuguese,Italian, Spanish, Irish,and English parents. This seems to be mostly Mediterranean based but I think anyone can have it and not know. They put you on Folic(sp) Acid which can control this but there is no cure. So I am letting all of you know, just in case you would like to have it checked out. We will all be alridht and for that i thank God.
