My colleague Maura Lerner has been getting many calls and emails about the story she wrote last week about 30-year-old Liz Logelin, who died in March a day after giving birth to her daughter.

Here’s one she felt was worth sharing.

Lisa Boyd of Minneapolis said she nearly died of a blood clot last year, shortly after giving birth to her son Murray. Since then, she has turned into “an evangelist” on blood clots, especially about their risks when associated with childbirth.
Boyd, 33, says women are rarely warned that the very act of giving birth puts them at risk for potentially fatal blood clots. She didn’t know until she ended up in the emergency room with a swollen leg, which turned out to be caused by a 12-inch blood clot. Blood thinners saved the day. She asked her doctor: “Why is this the first time I’m hearing about it in the ER?” He replied: “We don’t like to scare people. The risk is small.”
Says Boyd: “You don’t have to scare people out of their shorts. But some education would certainly benefit.”
For information on symptoms and risks, check out the National Alliance for Thrombosis and Thrombophilia. Or the Mayo Clinic.

Have you had a blood clot scare like this one?