JimL
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Doesn?t that make sense? I?ve been eating coumadin now for seven years, which adds up to quite a lot of coumadin. So I thought that for my seventh valversary, I would calculate how many tons of coumadin I have now consumed. That can then be translated into the kind of animal, the equivalent weight of which I have consumed in coumadin.
My first thought was that I have all the little books in which I have recorded my coumadin dosage and INR tests for the past seven years; I could dig them all out and add up the total, one day at a time. It didn?t take me long to reject that idea.
I have averaged 5 or 6 mgs of coumadin a day now for seven years. So seven years times 365 days a year equals 2555 days. To be accurate, there have been two leap years included in that, so adding those two February 29ths makes 2557 days. On the average, then, I?ve taken 5.5 mgs of coumadin for 2557 days, which adds up to the grand total of 14063.5 mgs of coumadin!
So what is an mg? After some research, I learned that a mg, a milligram, is one-thousandth of a gram (not one-millionth). So my total consumption of coumadin so far in my life totals out at 14.0635 grams! Isn?t that fabulous!
But what is a gram? Being thoroughly MeriCan, I haven?t the foggiest idea. The answer from www.calculateme.com is that it is 0.03100471024237026 pounds. That isn?t sounding like very much. The good news is that 0.03100471024237026 pounds equals 0.49607536387792417 ounces, which is starting to sound like something. I?ve consumed almost a full half ounce of raw coumadin in my life! It sure seemed a lot larger when it was going down.
I did some checking to see what kind of big game type animal weighs somewhere around roughly a half ounce, and I found one! A wikipedia article reports that their weight can vary from as little as a quarter of an ounce all the way up to two ounces! No, not a rat, but a mouse! So I guess I have to conclude that I?ve eaten the weight of a small mouse in coumadin during the past seven years. Somehow that puts a measure of meaning to my consumption of coumadin?a very small measure.
But thanks anyway for reading this far.
My first thought was that I have all the little books in which I have recorded my coumadin dosage and INR tests for the past seven years; I could dig them all out and add up the total, one day at a time. It didn?t take me long to reject that idea.
I have averaged 5 or 6 mgs of coumadin a day now for seven years. So seven years times 365 days a year equals 2555 days. To be accurate, there have been two leap years included in that, so adding those two February 29ths makes 2557 days. On the average, then, I?ve taken 5.5 mgs of coumadin for 2557 days, which adds up to the grand total of 14063.5 mgs of coumadin!
So what is an mg? After some research, I learned that a mg, a milligram, is one-thousandth of a gram (not one-millionth). So my total consumption of coumadin so far in my life totals out at 14.0635 grams! Isn?t that fabulous!
But what is a gram? Being thoroughly MeriCan, I haven?t the foggiest idea. The answer from www.calculateme.com is that it is 0.03100471024237026 pounds. That isn?t sounding like very much. The good news is that 0.03100471024237026 pounds equals 0.49607536387792417 ounces, which is starting to sound like something. I?ve consumed almost a full half ounce of raw coumadin in my life! It sure seemed a lot larger when it was going down.
I did some checking to see what kind of big game type animal weighs somewhere around roughly a half ounce, and I found one! A wikipedia article reports that their weight can vary from as little as a quarter of an ounce all the way up to two ounces! No, not a rat, but a mouse! So I guess I have to conclude that I?ve eaten the weight of a small mouse in coumadin during the past seven years. Somehow that puts a measure of meaning to my consumption of coumadin?a very small measure.
But thanks anyway for reading this far.
