Started 81 mg of enteric coated aspirin tonight June 16 2011

The Revlimid chemotherapy that I will start in July may cause deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or pulmonary embolism (blood clot in the lung) as a side effect.  To help prevent that from occurring, I'll take a blood thinner like aspirin. I have NOT taken aspirin since I was 28 years old and had a bleeding peptic ulcer, so it is scary to even think about putting it in my system. However, I had the EGD (swallow the camera test) and my GI tract looked normal - so, I'm going to give the aspirin a try. If I cannot tolerate aspirin, then I'll have to do heparin injections or coumadin pills.