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 — which had formed in a vein in his calf — travelled to his heart and lungs, with catastrophic results.
‘I woke up that morning feeling more tired than usual and went into the bathroom, looked in the mirror and did a double take,’ says Paul, a former management consultant from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.
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