Wednesday
Had bloods taken for Friday's telephone consultation
Saturday
Well, the doctor phoned from the McDermott unit yesterday with my results and they were not good..
Haemaglobin was 94, up from 89 the week before so that's an improvement. She also said that I would probably have a transfusion at 88 or below so last week was close. My neutrophils, the part of the white cell that fights infection was down to 0.72 so that's the lowest ever figure for that part of the blood. She said that although I am neutropenic now, they probably wouldn't intervene until 0.5 Then something that has never been talked about before, platelets. Platelets help the blood to clot. When I checked on the internet about the figure for them, they were all the doctor's figure multiplied by 1000. So if she said 150, the internet said 150,000. Well, she said that last week they were 173 and this week they are 115 but she said that possibly they were low because I had been ill recently. However they want me to have my blood checked again in 4 weeks.
So that's it folks. It would be a lie to say that I'm not worried, very worried.
Tvman xx
