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Life-saving diagnosis for MacLean at OTMH Continued from page 1 3 · Friday, January 25, 2013 OAKVILLE BEAVER · www.insideHALTON.com "I would do anything for that set of doctors, that set of nurses, that hospital, the (emergency medical technician) people," MacLean said Thursday. "I would do anything." MacLean is just now beginning to feel comfortable about talking publicly about Oct. 9, 2012, a night that came so close to being her final one on Earth. In the days leading up to that fateful Tuesday, MacLean hadn't been feeling well. She had been experiencing shortness of breath -- to the point of not being able to walk up or down the stairs in her house without having to stop -- and had noticed cramping in her left calf. Cramps in her leg were nothing new for MacLean, an avid marathon runner. And she attributed the shortness of breath to either being out of shape ("I had a pretty crazy summer," she said) or a possible respiratory virus. MacLean saw her athletic therapist the afternoon of Oct. 9 about the cramping and also described her trouble breathing. The therapist suggested trying to work out the cramps with a warm bath, some stretching and ice. And if MacLean's breathing issues didn't go away, the therapist suggested, she should check into the hospital's emergency ward rather than waiting for her appointment with her general practitioner later in the week. MacLean went home and texted one of her women's hockey teammates that she wouldn't make that night's game. Ron, meanwhile, had a TRULY CANADIAN men's league game that night at Canlan Ice Sports. He left the house at 6:30 p.m., knowing that Cari could reach him on his BlackBerry if she ended up going to the emergency room. Cari went upstairs and had a bath. In the middle of that bath, she began to vomit. MacLean got out and looked in the mirror and noticed she was "ghostly white" and sweating profusely. All she wanted to do was lie down. So that's what MacLean did, surrounding the toilet with a nest of towels. Then, in a phenomenon MacLean said she couldn't explain, a loud voice broke through the chaos and panic running through her mind. "No! This is not how it ends! Get up off the floor!" the voice boomed. MacLean did, summoning the strength to lift herself up off the floor and put on a shirt before crawling down the stairs to the cellphone she had used to text her teammate earlier. She called 911. Shortly after she made the call (MacLean said she doesn't know how much time elapsed, but knows it wasn't very long), six Oakville firefighters burst through the front door of her home. MacLean was quickly whisked away to the hospital. By the time she arrived at OTMH, she was close to death. "My heart never did stop, but they were prepared for it," she said. "The emergency doctor was anticipating it, and they couldn't believe it didn't stop." When patients come into the hospital without showing vital signs, MacLean said, there are typically five things doctors look for and begin ruling out. But, for a variety of reasons, it was impossible for Dr. Inamdar to rule out anything. MacLean did not show the typical signs of pulmonary embolism. The calves of her legs were symmetrical, while pulmonary embolism typi- cally features heavy swelling in one calf. And she wasn't feeling severe pain when breathing A low oxygen level would also be an indicator of pulmonary embolism. The ideal way to measure oxygen levels is through the fingernails, but MacLean was wearing nail polish that were very difficult to remove. 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