Blood Clot in my Leg or DVT PT II

     This is a continuation of my latest experience. In Part I, I described the sudden onset of this incident. Now to continue.
     My blood pressure has always been a little elevated, but this was well above elevated reaching 237/130 and maintaining that level through the transport. I am located in a rural county, but the response time by the local EMS service was quite surprising from where they came from, which is about 12 miles away and commend them on their response and professionalism.
     On arrival to the ED, I still had the same pain level, despite my 50 mcg of Fentanyl. The ED physician and my nurse along with the rest of the staff did not hesitate on making the right decisions, despite my request to talk about the treatment. When the vascular surgeon arrived, I was glad they didn't listen to me. No pulses noted even with the doppler and my foot was in its fourth cramp and just barely felt it because of the numbness in my leg.  I might add that by this time I had received 2- 1mg IV pushes of Dilaudid and this still didn't ease the pain. I went straight to surgery.
     The vascular surgeon was the best and I didn't have any reservations about his capabilities. He had treated my wife, so I was pretty familiar with his work.
     The last thing I remember hearing was that I was fixing to get an IV of Versed and that was my first pain relief.
     I don't remember anything until waking up in CCU and that will be in the next part.