A Man’s 23andMe DNA Test Results Ends Up Saving His Father’s Life

When Andrew String ordered a 23andMe DNA kit to find out his genealogy and health background, he never expected that it would save his father’s life.

When String received his results, he learned that he had a deficiency of Factor II in his blood. This can coagulate your blood at a higher rate, which makes your blood thicker and could lead to clotting within your arteries. This in turn can cause problems with circulating your blood throughout your system.

He told his family about his results, but no one thought anything of it at the time.

Coincidentally, a week after getting his results, his father, Patrick, had a huge medical scare. String’s mother, Caroline, came home one day to find her husband collapsed on the living room floor.

They thought he might have had a heart attack so they immediately called an ambulance to rush him to the hospital.

After being evaluated, Patrick was diagnosed with blood clots in his lungs and heart. He had an emergency thrombectomy to remove the clots, but he ended up needing to be put on life support.

The doctors were baffled by what caused this, and initially assumed that these were lasting effects from COVID-19.

They were unsure of how to treat the issue since they didn’t know exactly why it was happening in the first place. His prognosis was looking very bleak.

But their family felt like COVID was not the culprit, and they ended up being right.

That’s when String remembered his DNA results and his deficiency of Factor II in his blood. He showed his father’s doctors, who immediately changed their course of treatment after realizing that this genetic factor could be the source of the clotting.

It worked! He was able to be taken off life support and is now doing much better. It’s been a long road to recovery, but Patrick is happy with his progress and continues to get better every day.

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