BLOOD CLOG

When I was a kid, I had a hard time remembering the word volleyball. I would always have to pause before saying it, and would run through a **volleyball or bolleyball** street fight in my head. Over the years, the b dropped away, and volleyball was correctly adopted into my vernacular. That same process doesn't appear to be the case with everybody else.

Blood clog. This is another term that I hear all the time in the ED.
"My doctor sent my in because he said I might have a blood clog."
"It hurts, but not the same as the time I had a blood clog."
And so on.

One fine day, I approached a patient in a hallway stretcher who had come in with a chief complaint of leg pain.
Dr.Z: Hi there, ma'am. What can I do for you today?
Patient: Well, I thought I had a blood clog in my leg, but I just went to the bathroom and it came out of my vagina, so I think that I'm okay now.
Dr.Z: Right.

So go ahead and add blood clog to your vocabulary. It's safer than a blood clot, and apparently you don't need blood thinners as part of your treatment. Just a vagina.