Board member thankful for help from medical workers in College Station, Dallas.

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BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Regent Bill Mahomes is counting his blessings this Thanksgiving week after being released from a Dallas hospital Sunday.

Mahomes was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism Nov. 12 after feeling light-headed during a meeting of the Board of Regents on Texas A&M University’s main campus.

He was taken by ambulance to Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in College Station, where he was treated initially. After two days he was transported by helicopter ambulance to a hospital closer to home, staying at UT Southwestern Medical Center for nine more days of treatment, testing, monitoring, and recovery.

“I’m so grateful to the doctors, nurses, EMT and other medical professionals at both facilities,” Mahomes said. “They took great care of me.”

A pulmonary embolism is a sudden blockage in a lung’s artery, something usually caused by one or more blood clots traveling from elsewhere in the body. While initial treatments were successful, doctors were concerned about additional clotting and other complications.

Mahomes spent Sunday evening and Monday at his Dallas home resting and responding to more than a hundred well-wishers who had called, texted, or emailed. “That was totally unanticipated and so appreciated,” he said. “It lifted me to hear from so many friends.”