22 minutes after the hour now. high-profile quarterbacks are making headlines off the field. gerald greenburg is here with more on today s bleacher report. tell us about this. college football season, saturdays, what it s all about. two-time defending national champs may have a reason to be concerned, a.j. mccaron, a walking boot for a broken toe. winning back-to-back national titles. all eyes on suspended texas a & m quarterback johnny
to the lungs, pulmonary embolism can happen to anybody and something people are reminded of. it s a clot that sort of develops in the deep veins, carol, in your legs. this is something you could feel. if you feel the clots on the surface that is not this. this is the deep veins. get a clot around the valve of the veins and it breaks off and has a long way to travel through the vascularture of the entire body. it could block a blood vessel in the lung and someone might have chest pain and shortness of breath and rapid heartbeat. if the clot is big enough this is a deadly problem. within several minutes, someone could die from this. if it s deep in your vein, any soreness you could feel if you touch your leg? kou feel it? you won t feel the actual clot but you might have soreness in the leg. now, sometimes it can just be hard to tell, especially some something like her because she was in a walking boot. we saw that after some time and i think maybe a cast sort of thing at the upper p
from are the vaps of the lower leg. this is important. when you talk about the deep veins of the lower leg, these are not veins you can necessarily feel. take a look in blue there. that is the valve around one of these deep veins. you see a clot starting to form over there. after some time that clot could essentially break off and start to travel throughout the entire body and specifically it goes through the blood system and lands up in the lungs. that is what a pulmonary embolism it. blocks one of the veins in the lungs. if that clot is big enough, it can cause death within just a few minutes of that clot actually breaking off. this can be a significant problem. obviously, in her case, it was able to be recognized and able to be treated. now, the question what puts you at risk for the clot in the leg in the first place. she has been wearing that walking boot sort of cast thing for some time. immobilization is a problem. that long flight los angeles to new york sitting in one position
beginning to take its toll on the 81-year-old. he is being treated for normal side effects from his ongoing cancer therapy. he is wearing a walking boot while recovering from a slight tear in his achilles tendon. less than two weeks after undergoing surgery to remove a tumor in july, mccain returned to the senate floor greeted by the deafening applause of his colleagues. before delivering a stinging critique of the senate s fierce partisan divide. let s trust each other. let s return to regular order. we ve been spinning our wheels on too many important issues because we keep trying to find a way to win without help from across the aisle. mccain cast the deciding vote to defeat the gop s health care bill. soon after, mccain shared some intimate details about his cancer diagnosis on 60 minutes . what did they tell you about the prognosis?