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Blood Clots and RV Travel: The Most Dangerous Risk You Never Knew Existed

RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

Mike Wendland

Personal Journals, Leisure, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Automotive

4.7624 Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Blood clots and RV Travel pose a serious risk to RVers, and yet few are even aware of this hidden danger. When sitting in a truck or RV for extended periods, such as on long drives, blood flow can slow down and cause blood clots to form. These clots can break off and travel to the lungs, causing a potentially fatal condition called pulmonary embolism. That's just what happened to the husband of Betsy Johnson. We interview Betsy in Episode 439 of the RV Podcast.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the RV podcast. This is episode 439 on this March 22nd, 2023.

0:07.6

And in this episode, we are going to have you with this.

0:39.0

We are coming to you today from Michigan, but we're about to hit the road, and by the time

0:44.4

you see this, we'll be someplace between Michigan and Florida. We've got a couple of stories

0:50.5

that we're checking out, and we're looking forward to being back on the road.

0:59.5

And in particular, since we moved over to Western Michigan, I'm looking forward to getting out of this lake effect snow.

1:02.0

Holy cow.

1:02.7

I've heard about it, but I never really experienced it for extended periods of time.

1:07.3

Yeah.

1:07.9

If you like snow, lake effects snow.

1:13.7

You'll love it. It is everywhere. I think I'm about ready to go south. Yes. Well, we are. We are literally packing as we're recording this, trying to get an

1:19.8

early start. We've got a couple of stories that you'll be seeing in the weeks ahead, and we'll be

1:25.1

rubbing it into you as we come to you from someplace, hopefully, in warmer weather.

1:31.2

Hey, we had a lot of feedback from last week's podcast, and among other things in the news of the

1:36.4

week section, we talked about the National Park Service and this very controversial program

1:43.3

where even vloggers or YouTubers who record with just their cell phone

1:48.1

are going to have to pay a fine if they don't get a permit, which they have to buy.

1:54.2

And we explained how this is just a ludicrous, you know, we understand if it's a big crew with lots of people and equipment but

2:01.3

one man two man two woman one woman band you know where we do this all by herself it's ridiculous

2:08.7

so as a result we mentioned how we're not going to the national parks because if we can't report it to

2:13.5

you we're not going to go so we had a lot of feedback of it, and one of the better ones

2:19.8

came from Tony, who had a pretty good perspective on what this issue is about. You want to

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