BABY ASPIRIN—TAKE IT OR TOSS IT? In my post Lessons of Getting Older last month I wrote of taking a fall during the Ventura half marathon and “bleeding buckets” for the last 3 miles, I didn’t mention that as soon as I crossed the finish line I was whisked into the first aid tent. The first thing they asked was if I was taking a blood thinner. I answered, “Just baby aspirin.” “That explains all the bleeding,” was the reply I got from the nurse. I had been taking it for only a few months. My doctor knows I try...