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Saturday, 02 April 2011 03:00

ED. - When we heard that Minneapolis triathlete April Morgan had a Ribectomy, we asked her to share that experience with our readers. The photo (L) is of a cool little chunk of April's rib, a gift from her docs. (She would have preferred jewelry.)

By April Morgan

Well it all started end of February when I started to notice this random tightness and swelling in my right arm during swim sessions. I figured I must have tweaked a muscle somehow, or perhaps it was just overuse. My right arm looked bigger, but I thought

After that things moved fairly quickly, and I was diagnosed with a blood clot in my right subclavian vein (the vein that passes between your clavicle and your 1st rib). For you detailed folk like me it