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Martha Kilner: What a Deep Vein Thrombosis Taught Me About Life Structure

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Jun 30, 2026, 16:18

Martha Kilner: What a Deep Vein Thrombosis Taught Me About Life Structure

Martha Kilner, Online Business Manager at Any Other Business, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“I could have died from a blood clot in 2019.

I was a primary school teacher, and I’d ignored the warning signs of stress for longer than I should have.

I had heart palpitations and I’d normalised feeling exhausted.

They’re not not sure why I had a a deep vein thrombosis but it happened after I’d sat through an entire parents’ evening without a break, without much water (becuse then you need a loo break!) as that is was just what you did.

A DVT can be fatal if it moves to your lungs. Luckily, mine didn’t.

But that moment, and the low mood and two redundancies that followed in the years after, is the real reason I’m so deliberate now about how I structure my life.

Organisation has always been important to me but I’ve also been intentional so I would never return to that place again.

When my food plan slips, the evenings feel chaotic.

When my walk disappears, my head gets louder. When I do not have somewhere to capture ideas, they wake me up at 5am buzzing for attention.

These things are the guardrails to making me feel good.

I don’t talk about this part often, but I wrote about it this month in my blog on what being organised really means, because I think it is important to be honest about why the systems matter, not just what they are.”

Martha Kilner: What a Deep Vein Thrombosis Taught Me About Life Structure