{"id":24716,"date":"2019-04-25T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/?p=24716"},"modified":"2023-12-29T12:50:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T20:50:36","slug":"vein-procedure-helps-lebanon-woman-enjoy-running-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/news\/vein-procedure-helps-lebanon-woman-enjoy-running-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Vein Procedure Helps Lebanon Woman Enjoy Running Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<article class=\"article\">\n\t<header class=\"header\">\n\t\t<span class=\"type\"><\/span>\t\t<h1>Vein Procedure Helps Lebanon Woman Enjoy Running Again<\/h1>\t\t<time>April 25, 2019<\/time>\n\t<\/header>\n\t<div id=\"block_f71aef064e0305cd2aa3956c439078bc\" class=\"shs-block block-news-article entry-content\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"acf-innerblocks-container\">\n\n<p>Lebanon resident Angela Boyd, 44, developed varicose veins after giving birth to her children, now ages 18 and 21. Her veins had worsened over time, becoming raised, bright blue and hindering her daily activity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boyd, who has worked for 12 years as a custodian for the Greater Albany Public School District, prefers to constantly be moving and averages 25,000 steps a day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI love my job! I love to be active and to work with the kids,\u201d said Boyd. When not working she likes to go on hikes, enjoy the outdoors and is even training to run 5K races.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-medical-vs-cosmetic-issue\">Medical Vs. Cosmetic Issue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Boyd confessed she didn\u2019t realize she had a medical condition and thought it was a cosmetic issue. She was prepared to live with varicose veins, although her leg hurt regularly.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year Boyd had to give up running due to her veins swelling to the size of her pinky. She lost mobility in her left leg and couldn\u2019t bend at the knee to sit with her feet flat on the ground.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boyd\u2019s OB\/GYN noticed her veins and suggested she see a vein specialist. She was referred to Samaritan Surgical Specialists in Corvallis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A consult confirmed that her vein issues were beyond cosmetic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-closurefast-amp-recovery\">ClosureFast &amp; Recovery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Boyd decided treatment was a necessary step. She had the minimally invasive, ClosureFast procedure completed in two areas on her leg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ClosureFast is an outpatient procedure performed under local anesthesia and most patients resume normal activities within one to two days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs far as recovery, the pain wasn\u2019t anything that a few Advil couldn\u2019t help,\u201d said Boyd. \u201cI had the procedure twice, each on a Friday and was back to walking 20,000 steps a day by Monday.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Boyd, the results decreased swelling in her leg and gave her mobility back. She looks forward to getting back to running and plans on participating in the iRun for Kids 5K, a fundraiser for the Albany Public Schools Foundation, with her fellow staff and local students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If you suffer from painful varicose veins, learn more about the options available at <a href=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/health-services\/all-services\/general-surgery\/varicose-veins\">samhealth.org\/Legs<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<aside>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/vein-woman-purple-shirt_306-CO.jpg\" class=\"attachment-cta size-cta wp-post-image\" alt=\"Angela Boyd\" srcset=\"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/vein-woman-purple-shirt_306-CO.jpg 360w, https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/vein-woman-purple-shirt_306-CO-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/vein-woman-purple-shirt_306-CO-120x100.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure>\t\t<\/aside>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After having a minimally invasive vein procedure, Angela Boyd of Lebanon, is pain-free and back to enjoying the activities she loves most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":11427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_shs_workflow_notes":"04-25-19","_shs_exclude_from_navigation":false,"_shs_promote_article_on_blogs":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"news-topics":[293,285],"news-types":[270],"services":[],"specialty":[],"class_list":["post-24716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","news-topics-wellness","news-topics-patient-story","news-types-feature-article"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24716"},{"taxonomy":"news-topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-topics?post=24716"},{"taxonomy":"news-types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-types?post=24716"},{"taxonomy":"services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/services?post=24716"},{"taxonomy":"specialty","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/specialty?post=24716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}