Possibly. Another possibility- he possibly has afib and requires anticoagulants such as warfarin or apixaban. Those absolutely increase the frequency of bruising and the bruises these people get are gnarly.
Yeah, but it would be odd to have bruises on the back of the hand. You'd still need to be banging the back of the hand, which is a pretty rare event in normal human motion.
Blood thinners plus iv in the back of the hand can make really nasty bruising, but bruising varies wildly from person to person, even with thinners.
This could definitely be iv plus thinners.
Or it could just be iv, and it collapsed, or he just bruises badly, especially if he's on aspirin (lower level thinner), and just because of his age.
It definitely could be thinners + banging his hand, if he fell for example, but warferin bruises tend to be darker, and more defined.
My immediate thought was iv.
I'm amazed he hasn't got makeup on it.
If it's from an iv, I'm amazed they did it in his hand, given how controlling he is about this kind of thing.
Quite likely to be on aspirin though.
Assuming America does that like Europe.
Given his age, I can't imagine he'd be up and about in public doing major stuff like this if he had an active DVT, and he's not just had surgery.
It could very easily just be an iv / blood tests with quite a few syringes taken, and he just bruises more. Age is a factor there, plus aspirin. And if they needed a load of syringes. Or just unable to find the vein easily, and dug around a bit.
Throughout my teens, I had 6 syringes a month taken, and the vein would collapse by the end.
Though I don't really bruise thanks to a high platelet count that stops the bleed very quickly. I barely bruised when they missed the vein and went through my lateral cutaneus nerve, and then dug around to find the vein. Fun!
I've seen people with bruises half way down the arm from a bad phlebotomy session.
Oh yeah, absolutely there are failures. My point is that nowadays 70% of HCPs choose Eliquis as their go to blood thinner. It’s the only one that has fewer strokes, less bleeds, lower mortality rates than vs Coumadin
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u/murseoftheyear Feb 25 '25
Possibly. Another possibility- he possibly has afib and requires anticoagulants such as warfarin or apixaban. Those absolutely increase the frequency of bruising and the bruises these people get are gnarly.