B+, You Only Live Once

Kristen was in the best shape of her life. She just returned from coaching at the state championships for track and field where she watched her athletes she trained, coach, and mentally prepare, medal and run their best times individually and set marks higher than before. To unwind, once home, she decided to go on a nice long run and stretch her legs out from all the travel. But half way thru the run something went terribly wrong. Her right arm start feeling tingly and cold. She continued run through it but her symptoms persisted to get worse. Within minutes her arm was white and she could feel her fingers on her right hand going numb. She knew that she needed to find her car right away. She took short cuts thru the woods and by then her entire forearm had turned a blueish color. She decided she needed to get to the hospital right away because her hand was numb. She knew she couldnít drive so she called her mother to pick her mother up. As soon she saw her arm she couldnít knew something was wrong and motioned her to keep her arm above her heart. Once arriving at the ER, she was taken back to the examining room immediately to be examined. She was had to have various imaging studies done. It showed that Kristen was getting no blood flow from her subclavian vein in her neck to her arm at all. They ran dye thru her veins to assess the problem, and they had their answer, a massive blood clot. This answer would be the eye of the storm and start to Kristenís self-discovery, test of will, and strength to overcome difficulty than she would ever think possible. But this was just the beginning of her 8 year medical journey that still leaves many ??