No, I did not have a surgery of any sort while I was in hospital. But I didn't just lay around the hospital ... I was allowed out for an hour or two during the afternoons to exercise. They wanted me around for the two shots a day, and to monitor things.

My left leg is full of clots from about mid-thigh down. When I was first admitted, the clot highest up in the thigh had blocked the vein entirely, and my body had created a small new vein to get around that clot. The clots in my calf also block the vein, but my blood has created small channels through the clots.

One of the things that is going on ... I think ... is that my blood is backing up in the foot.

I burned my left foot to the bone in 2001 and thus burn the veins down there. What happened then is that the blood would flow into my foot, and would pool there because there was no way for it to return to my heart. My foot would swell and tingle so badly I could only stand up for about 10 minutes at a time.

I'm feeling the same sort of thing again this time, especially if I've been up and walking around for a while. It feels like the blood is pooling in my foot because only a trickle of blood is returning to my heart because of the blockage in the leg.

So one of the tiredness factors is my leg. However, there's another tiredness factor going on too. I get a good long sleep at night ... but if I go for a walk or something, I feel like I need a nap and often do take a nap. That's just not me.

I'm also feeling the cold more than I used to.

I'll be going for another INR test on Monday ... here's hoping I've stabilized!!