Still normal
Apr. 26th, 2007 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Went to the hematologist today - no leukemia, no lymphoma, I'm still perfectly normal. I may start donating my white blood cells, though, since I've got more than I need on a regular basis. It's not even due to allergies - according to my chemistry, I don't have allergies or inflammation or a recent injury to my bone marrow system (the surgery, not exactly an injury). At least now my doctor can only pester me continually about my cholesterol ratio. Hah!
It's amazing what they can do with blood these days. Used to be it was all just whole blood & you never knew what you might end up when you got a transfusion. Unless a pregnant woman might have the rH factor, they don't blood-type people, unless maybe they still do it as routine pediatric care. I don't know (well, I used to know, I don't remember) what my blood type is - and no one cares, either. Now if you have to have a transfusion, they draw your blood & type it at the lab or in the emergency room, then they go through a detailed check-system with the blood they're going to give you where it's typed once at the storage facility & run through typing & instant analysis at the facility that's going to give it to you - once when it's received and once by the assistants to the surgeon or doctor who gives you the transfusion. To store a couple of bags of your own blood prior to surgery, the local blood banks charge you to draw it & charge a storage fee - like about $400 a month!
Jody got her results back - she hasn't been poisoned & her pain killers aren't causing her seizures. She got something called a 'neural EEG' to trace the problems in her nervous system. In a way, it would have been better if she did have arsenic poisoning or something like that because then they could fix the problem. If she's got something like MD or cerebral palsy or has developed epilepsy... that's something that can't be fixed - it can only be medicated.
I really should be working on my webpage. I've only got two more pages to do - the 'Entertainment' page & the 'Directory', other than some minor tweaking here & there. I decided that if next semester's 'Introduction to Programming' is another java class, I'm going to drop it & take the A+ certification for hardware. I was thinking about taking 5 classes, but I already did that this semester & ended up dropping two classes. I seem to be finding anything else to do with my time. I also have a math quiz and questions for chapter 12 in my Environmental Science. What am I doing instead? Watching Star Trek: Voyager re-runs... blogging... loading new pictures in my screen saver program... In other words, I'm not doing what I should be doing and I'm not really doing anything else, either. I'm screwing off.
It's amazing what they can do with blood these days. Used to be it was all just whole blood & you never knew what you might end up when you got a transfusion. Unless a pregnant woman might have the rH factor, they don't blood-type people, unless maybe they still do it as routine pediatric care. I don't know (well, I used to know, I don't remember) what my blood type is - and no one cares, either. Now if you have to have a transfusion, they draw your blood & type it at the lab or in the emergency room, then they go through a detailed check-system with the blood they're going to give you where it's typed once at the storage facility & run through typing & instant analysis at the facility that's going to give it to you - once when it's received and once by the assistants to the surgeon or doctor who gives you the transfusion. To store a couple of bags of your own blood prior to surgery, the local blood banks charge you to draw it & charge a storage fee - like about $400 a month!
Jody got her results back - she hasn't been poisoned & her pain killers aren't causing her seizures. She got something called a 'neural EEG' to trace the problems in her nervous system. In a way, it would have been better if she did have arsenic poisoning or something like that because then they could fix the problem. If she's got something like MD or cerebral palsy or has developed epilepsy... that's something that can't be fixed - it can only be medicated.
I really should be working on my webpage. I've only got two more pages to do - the 'Entertainment' page & the 'Directory', other than some minor tweaking here & there. I decided that if next semester's 'Introduction to Programming' is another java class, I'm going to drop it & take the A+ certification for hardware. I was thinking about taking 5 classes, but I already did that this semester & ended up dropping two classes. I seem to be finding anything else to do with my time. I also have a math quiz and questions for chapter 12 in my Environmental Science. What am I doing instead? Watching Star Trek: Voyager re-runs... blogging... loading new pictures in my screen saver program... In other words, I'm not doing what I should be doing and I'm not really doing anything else, either. I'm screwing off.
