T + 57 Like a Pin Cushion

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Well the transplant clinic was as bad as I'd feared as far as delays were concerned and the situation was exacerbated by the fact they were two doctors short. I arrived at 10:30 for my 10:45 appointment and was seen about 12:15, still I was well prepared so it wasn't a problem.

What I was less prepared for was being stabbed three times for blood. I went in to the phlebotomists' room on arrival and had about 10 tubes of blood taken. The reason there are so many is because I am providing samples every two weeks for a study into Graft Versus Host Disease. I took my seat in the waiting room and then was called back in as the new phlebotomist hadn't done four other tubes that were needed so I got stabbed again.

I then went in to see the consultant. My counts were pretty good, white cells up to 3, neutrophils up to 2.1 , haemoglobin is still dropping but my transfusion tomorrow will take care of that for a bit. As my neutrophils are well above 1.0 now I don't need any more of the evil GCSF injections this week but we discussed my funny turns and next time I need GCSF I will be given a different formulation of the stuff than the filgrastim I have been taking.

The consultant gave me a transfusion form for to pass to the nurses to put in the tube of blood for cross matching by blood type. Unfortunately the new phlebotomist had mislabled the tube earlier ( putting my NHS number on instead of my hospital reference number ) and for obvious reasons the transfusion service will reject any tubes that don't have all the correct details on. So I was stabbed for a third time.

After that I saw the pharmacist to get topped up on some of my drugs but rather than wait the 45 mins for the dispensary I arranged to pick them up tomorrow when I am there for my transfusion.

Non-medical bit to follow.

The Book Meme

I got this from one of the blogs that I read, Jono Bacon

The rules for this meme thing are :
  • Grab the nearest book.
  • Open it to page 56.
  • Find the fifth sentence.
  • Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
  • Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
So here is the sentence:-

"A play for our times in the Trinity lecture theatre."

Taken from "The Liar" by Stephen Fry. ( I'm not obsessed really).

I'm now supposed to "tag" five other bloggers I know and ask them to do the same. Unfortunately I don't personally know five people with blogs so I'll do the best I can and tag people I know read this blog. If you don't have a blog you can post a comment on this blog.

Tig you're it:-

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