After last night’s Deadliest Catch I have a better idea of what Captain Phil Harris has going on. Screw all the erroneous reports online, the clouds broke yesterday. Short of hearing the doctor actually saying “this is what happened”, from what they showed on DC, it was a thromboembolism as I mentioned last week. No punctured lung (as originally, widely reported), no broken ribs, no heart attack. And for those who are batting around crazy ideas of what’s going on, let me put this is simple terms:
In Phil’s case, it would appear that he had thromboemboli that traveled to his lungs, which then led to the symptoms described for a pulmonary embolism last week. (There is a difference between a thromboembolism and a pulmonary embolism, but for space’s sake, I ask you to Google). Whether it was a PE or a thrombo is sort of academic. Once that clot hits the lungs, life is hell. Nobody feels good.
Is my take 100% accurate? No, because I was neither the nurse on duty or even in attendance nor did any doctor jump on screen and say “this is the deal, folks.” Speculation is a terrible thing, but some of the things I’ve read online are so wildly wrong, it’s frightening that those spreading the info claim to be medical professionals. I risk adding to the misinformation highway by stating what it SOUNDS like happened, but at least my terminology is correct and the cause and effect are logical. Not so with m