My story starts in March 2020 when I underwent a medical termination in hospital. The termination went wrong and I ended up needing medical intervention and two blood transfusions. Fast forward a week later and I’ve got terrible back pain, and pelvic pain. I completely ignored this as I thought nothing of it and didn’t think at all it could be symptoms of a DVT. Two days passed and the pain was so excruciating in my leg and groin that I couldn’t walk, it wasn’t until then that I checked my leg to notice it was bright red and completely swollen.
I still had no idea that it could be a blood clot as I knew nothing about them, only that my biological father had a blood clot in his leg and back a few years ago. I got an emergency appointment with my GP who sent me straight to my local hospital. They examined me but had to send me home in the early hours of a Friday morning to return for a CT scan at 11am that same day.