
Except the flying part. I’m not afraid of flying (that’s the other coach, who said she developed this fear after having her first baby-great). I don’t think about crashing, I don’t get motion sickness (well, sometimes on boats), and I don’t get antsy sitting around for a few hours. But I now have this irrational fear of blood clots. I don’t think there’s any reason I am more likely to have a blood clot sitting on an airplane than on my couch (which I do all the time), it’s just that everyone always says “make sure you get up and walk around every hour because of blood clots.” So, naturally, I’m going to be tired
and on the airplane by 6am but I can’t take a nap because what
if I sleep for more than an hour and immediately get a blood clot?
What if I can’t get out of my seat because I’m next to some
snoring fatty who I can’t climb over and the blood pools at my
waist and clots in my leg and blocks blood to the placenta or goes
straight to my heart? Or even just one of those things? Eek!
Again, I sit on my couch for hours on end (I don’t use a desk,
but same idea) so why should I worry more about planes?
I shouldn’t. But should I worry more about the couch? Oh dear.
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