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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Advice from Serena Williams, who almost died, here.
https://www.vogue.com/article/serena-williams-vogue-cover-interview-february-2018

Shades of ProPublica’s year’s Long research into post partum complications here: https://twitter.com/propublica/status/951219421099503621

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In reading that story about Serena Williams, all I could think was that if she were anyone else, she would have died.  Hands down.  It's not just because she was aggressive in pursuing care, it's because she was Serena Freaking Williams and they *had* to listen.  Plenty of women are pushy about asking for follow up and they get blown off by their doctors.  Plenty of women would have just gotten the leg ultrasounds as she did and nothing else (and then died from blood clots).  It's completely scary and makes me glad I'm done having kids and was lucky that my providers listened when I had complications (urosepsis after having a kidney stone removed three weeks PP; ER did a CT to rule out other conditions, then admitted me, and put me on fluids, IV abx, and continuous cardiac monitoring).[/quote]

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