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When Your Legs Are Too 'Swell'
… “For some time, she was telling me to get my swollen leg checked out at Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN),” says Barwis, a 67-year-old retired secretary from Churchville, Bucks County. Barwis, who experienced swelling below her surgically … knee in 2007, wanted to listen but kept deferring. “I had it checked out by seven different doctors over two years, had a dozen tests and wasn’t getting anywhere,” she says. “All along my mom kept saying go to LVHN, what’s one more test? As my … It turned out mom – 89-year-old Millie Lempa of Lehighton – had the right answer. That’s because she had read about a condition called chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) during one of her visits to her LVHN cardiologist. When your legs swell …