I was on a heavy-duty blood thinner after my stent and couldn't believe the amount of subcutaneous bleeding. Purple spots everywhere. Went to a lighter one and eventually was taken off of that. So like you, some experience. Don't like the idea of athletes, especially athletes that play positions where internal bleeding from impact is a play-by-play risk, being on blood thinners. A ruptured spleen that hemhorrages excessively due to blood thinners could be nasty. Spleen is a tough organ, but still...
Another more common injury is a lung injury that causes a player to spit up some bright red blood, wheeze for a while and get back into the game, even, or heal up quickly after that. Blood thinners could mess things up there.
I still want to know with Noteboom: Blood clots? OK, where? How'd they get there? What's the prognosis?
I've read too many reports of young athletic men turning up dead after covid vaccines were suspect in forming long, coagulated, gooey, yucky-looking blood clots that without warning dislodged and went where they shouldn't and killed them. I don't feel easy about Joe Noteboom's situation being brushed over with the PR wordsping of saying blood clots - and acting like it's no big deal. Getting a stinger was no big deal, either, until we learned more about CTE.
Anybody have a better informed input about Joe's situation than mine? Please share.
