Not for Faint of Heart

One of the unfortunate things about all the bleeding was passing clots. For some reason, the nurses always seemed to associate the size of the clots with certain fruits. Many clots were ‘cherry-sized’ or ‘grape-sized’. Most clots that week were plum-sized. But Wednesday night, Trish passed a clot that put us in a whole new category, well into the citrus range, we’re talking grapefruit… full-sized ripe grapefruit from Florida. I don’t know why they were still using fruit to describe the clots. I was fairly certain Trish had just expelled her liver. It was so big, they had to bring a scale in to weigh it. 27 grams, very impressive. If you haven’t lost your lunch and are still interested, I’ve got a cool picture of it.