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 Last Aug. as COVID was making hospitals more scary than they normally are my wife informs me that her left leg has been aching for a bit. Not thinking much of it but taking note I nodded and just waited for more reason to worry. She had been "training" AKA walking and running with Elizabeth Winkelmann and loved their "Girl TIme" so I did not think much of it, she probably just pushed it a little , Feel the burn is good Right ! My gut radar was beginning to blink Red as she had now said it was still bugging her after a couple weeks. I was waiting for the tell tail swelling to come. Then one Saturday in Aug. we woke and she said it was a little puffy. We went about our morning and finally I stopped to look at her version of "puffy" and immediately decided that we are now going to the emergency room. Her version of "Puffy" I have come to refer to as her elephant leg. Needless to say our opinions differed a little. My mind began to race a bit, her first blood clot has a name Cynthia Davis , our first daughter messed with her body and resulted in her First DVT. As I was 20 and she 19 we both did not think much of it as you are never going to die when your that age. Now it is 26 years later and we have a much different outlook on life things became a little "real". As I drove us to the emergency room I knew the outcome and also figured I was not going to be next to the one I just wanted to hold to tight, If I hold tight nothing can harm her is all I could think.  As we arrive the young man informed us of the very thing I had figured, do to COVID she would be going in alone... the wait in the truck was excruciating, I will give Rhonda huge props for texting me every chance she got. and when she finally got settled she called me. Be strong all is good, is all I could think of now. and she eventually got the confirmation we both suspected. Another DVT. With meds prescribed and Doctors seen the Clock began. You see, depending on where the clot is, it takes different times to dissolve back into the vain. Her timer was set for 6 months. We celebrated that 6 month mark on 2/15/21. We are not fully out of the woods as this DVT is NON-Provoked she will probably be on thinners for the rest of her life. I share all that to announce that I am putting together a Team to do a Virtual bicycle ride in the month of March. March is Clot awareness Month, Odd as before this DVT I was not aware of that. One more tidbit of info I did not know is that Blood Clots take over 100,000 people a year. More than Brest Cancer, AIDS and car accidents combined. Together we can help spread the word and fight the clot to get these numbers down.