{"id":100090,"date":"2019-12-24T04:50:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T12:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/man-who-nearly-died-from-blood-clot-launches-preventative-device"},"modified":"2019-12-24T04:50:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T12:50:37","slug":"man-who-nearly-died-from-blood-clot-launches-preventative-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/man-who-nearly-died-from-blood-clot-launches-preventative-device","title":{"rendered":"Man who nearly died from blood clot launches preventative device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><video width=\"636\" height=\"358\" controls><source src=\"https:\/\/videos.dailymail.co.uk\/video\/mol\/2019\/12\/24\/5607568229613092329\/1024x576_MP4_5607568229613092329.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/video><\/p>\n<p>Paul Westerman was just 44 when he developed the blood clot that almost killed him after suffering a knee injury while playing tennis.<\/p>\n<p>Eight days after he fell, part of the clot \u2014 which had formed in a vein in his calf \u2014 travelled to his heart and lungs, with catastrophic results.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I woke up that morning feeling more tired than usual and went into the bathroom, looked in the mirror and did a double take,\u2019 says Paul, a former management consultant from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Westerman was just 44 when he developed the blood clot that almost killed him after suffering a knee injury while playing tennis. Eight days after he fell, part of the clot \u2014 which had formed in a vein in his calf \u2014 travelled to his heart and lungs, with catastrophic results. \u2018I woke up [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}