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October 19, 2005

Episode # 15: "Is It High Or Not" of

AS THE TONSIL FALLS

Last night about 10:45 when I got out of class I noticed my phone showed two missed calls. One was my next door neighbor - turned carpool buddy. The other was "TheDrugDealer's" assistant. She left a message saying that my blood work from my last appointment showed that my glucose and my white blood cell count where both high and that I needed to make an appointment with my primary care physician to discuss the issues.

The words white blood cell count freaked me out a bit last night. I had a good cry on the neighbor's shoulder and went to bed with a headache. Today on my way to my appointment with "ThePainInflictor," I called and made an appointment with "TheInternist" and left a message with "TheDrugDealer's" assistant to call me back. I wanted to get a copy of the lab report to take to "TheInternist."

I was already struggling to figure out how I was going to make up enough hours to get to 40 this week before today. I didn't get to work until 10:07 today since I went to see "ThePainInflictor" first. Then I left again at 11:53 to go to my E-stem treatment and then my appointment with "TheInternist" was at 1:15. I caught him up with all the changes in prescriptions and new diagnoses from "TheDrugDealer" and "ThePainInflictor" and then showed him the lab report.

Keep in mind that this same doctor had done blood work on me exactly 23 hours earlier than the report I was bringing him. I had two sets of blood work done in two days. So when his didn't show these problems, I was already a bit suspicious. "TheInternist" started looking at the report and my glucose was 93. That is perfectly in the middle of normal. Hmm. Then he turned the paper to the white blood cell count. It showed 7.8. Normal is 4.0 - 10.5 and again that falls in the middle. The good news.. from 09/06 to 10/12 my Folic Acid and B12 levels came up. They are not quite back up to normal yet, but they are a lot closer than they were.

Ok... so why in the world did I just spend $20 to see my doctor + the money I lost missing an extra hour of work? You don't know? Neither do I. Frustrating. And I'm a little bit ticked. Someone needs to teach my "DrugDealer" the definitions of High and Low and NORMAL!

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Posted by: Jeff Vachon at October 21, 2005 01:15 AM

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