Deadliest Catch – Whats Making Phil Sick
July 4, 2008 by Healthy Shana
We all know that Captain Phil of the Cornelia Marie has been sick the entire season of Deadliest Catch. In the video clip below we get a small insight as to what exactly has been causing him to be sick. Watch below and see if you can figure it out.
Deadliest Catch: What’s Ailing Phil
It is called Dvt Deep vain fibrosis. Caused from sitting for long periods of time and the blood doesn’t circulate in your legs witch causes a blood clot, that eventually frees up and moves to the legs or heart with no warning. Phil is lucky he survived. Most cases aren’t caught in time. Like my father.
Thanks for sharing M.D Wells
The dude needs to quit smoking. He smokes like a chimney. One more Pulmonary embolism he will not likely survive, he doesn’t have the lung capacity. The smoking will eventually get him anyway. Furthermore, on the show when they thought he fractured a rib, you do not want to use a splint around the ribcage. It may offer some pain relief, but it can reduce the ability to completely expand the chest cavity when breathing and lead to pneumonia. Pain control is the only treatment for rib fractures so the patient can deep breath and cough more comfortably, thus reducing the likelyhood of developing pneumonia.
FYI It is called DVT (Deep Vein Thrombosis) not fibrosis. The DVT can travel to the lung and cause a pulmonary embolism, that is what Capt Phil suffered. He is very fortunate he survived.
good luck to phil DVT’s claim alot of lives. Also thanks for clearing up the DVT thing made me twinge a bit
We feel like family to Phil. Our thoughts and prayers are with him.
He’s alot better now.
Anyone who’s watched Phil at all on the show knows that he’s a smoking timebomb. He’s a substance (nicotine) addict, he’s killing himself one drag at a time. Let Darwin take it from here. His 15 minutes of fame is pretty much over anyway. He was fun to watch. The only victims here are his family – kids, grandkids, etc – if he cared about them enough he would have not been smoking and instead given them more time with him. So be it.