Got a Rountuit
Oct. 23rd, 2006 06:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Which is infinitely better than a sposedta.
I cleaned up the display case so we can begin work on it at some future point in the future.
I don't think much about Rob's sister, Tania. She's a nurse, she's 42, she got married to a black man named James which pleased her racist parents oh-so-much. Being a chronic avoider of drama, I avoid Tania at every opportunity I get. I know she wants to get to know me better, and is probably hurt in some vague way that I want little to do with her, especially when she interrupts Samhain with a wedding. She reminds me of a non-vulgar Lisa Lampinelli. But right now, her husband may be dying.
James is a big dude. We're talking like... well, not 'Refrigerator' Perry big, not even 'big like my dad was' big, but he's sizeable. Bad knees, very bad. Worse than mine - makes my torn anterior crucis and miniscus seem like a scraped-up boo-boo. He opted for an experimental replacement surgery and has had nothing but complications since. What the thing is - his body is producing red blood cells, but then they are disappearing. Poof, gone. No hemocytes, no hemocrits, no nothings. Just white blood cells, T-cells, plasma, not a drop of red to be seen. No one seems to know why, or how, and they definitely don't know how to fix it other than transfusion upon transfusion.
Now, I know a little about medicine from my herbs... not much about blood disorders at all, other than dietary-deficiency or parasite-related anemias & high blood pressure. Using my usual method of online divination, which is where I basically typed in 'red blood cells destroyed following surgery'. I came up with 'hemolytic anemia'. (Apparently it's very common in dogs, especially schnauzers) I'm kind of using today to test my amazing diagnostic powers.
I don't fully understand all the symptoms, though, and this is all relayed through Rob's mom, so I have no idea - he may just have 'iron-poor blood' & she's blown it all out of proportion. She once kept calling Celiac disease Celery disease, and she's been known to pronounce the 'j' in 'fajita' (say it out loud & you'll understand why this borders on the obscene).
The diagnosis would make no sense whatsoever if he was on immunosuppressants for the implant... but then again it might if he was on anti-clotting agents.
All this aside - my thoughts are with Rob's sister and her husband right now. She's a strong woman, but a little extra never hurts. This is just the time of year a lot of people choose to go home...
I cleaned up the display case so we can begin work on it at some future point in the future.
I don't think much about Rob's sister, Tania. She's a nurse, she's 42, she got married to a black man named James which pleased her racist parents oh-so-much. Being a chronic avoider of drama, I avoid Tania at every opportunity I get. I know she wants to get to know me better, and is probably hurt in some vague way that I want little to do with her, especially when she interrupts Samhain with a wedding. She reminds me of a non-vulgar Lisa Lampinelli. But right now, her husband may be dying.
James is a big dude. We're talking like... well, not 'Refrigerator' Perry big, not even 'big like my dad was' big, but he's sizeable. Bad knees, very bad. Worse than mine - makes my torn anterior crucis and miniscus seem like a scraped-up boo-boo. He opted for an experimental replacement surgery and has had nothing but complications since. What the thing is - his body is producing red blood cells, but then they are disappearing. Poof, gone. No hemocytes, no hemocrits, no nothings. Just white blood cells, T-cells, plasma, not a drop of red to be seen. No one seems to know why, or how, and they definitely don't know how to fix it other than transfusion upon transfusion.
Now, I know a little about medicine from my herbs... not much about blood disorders at all, other than dietary-deficiency or parasite-related anemias & high blood pressure. Using my usual method of online divination, which is where I basically typed in 'red blood cells destroyed following surgery'. I came up with 'hemolytic anemia'. (Apparently it's very common in dogs, especially schnauzers) I'm kind of using today to test my amazing diagnostic powers.
I don't fully understand all the symptoms, though, and this is all relayed through Rob's mom, so I have no idea - he may just have 'iron-poor blood' & she's blown it all out of proportion. She once kept calling Celiac disease Celery disease, and she's been known to pronounce the 'j' in 'fajita' (say it out loud & you'll understand why this borders on the obscene).
The diagnosis would make no sense whatsoever if he was on immunosuppressants for the implant... but then again it might if he was on anti-clotting agents.
All this aside - my thoughts are with Rob's sister and her husband right now. She's a strong woman, but a little extra never hurts. This is just the time of year a lot of people choose to go home...
