Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Miscounted Count, Discounted Count

Often mistakes made by someone irk you or even make you livid. Occasionally though they don't because the fixed mistake turns out to be favorable for you. Yesterday was one such day. In the morning when we called up our doctor to find out the blood counts he told us that WBCs had dropped from 1700 to 1300. When we looked at the printed report today it turns out that it wasn't 1300 - it was 1600! So the drop was insignificant.
In light of yesterday's report, the drop from 1600 to 1400 today is not bad at all. Platelets are also keeping themselves up and running wonderfully. Seeing the good behavior the doctor said that I need not come for my daily blood check tomorrow and come after a day's gap. I obviously agreed to that immediately :).

10 comments:

  1. now let it be a reverse trend. let doctor come and do his duty for you at home. this result should be a "juppy" factor as like munabhai for the doctor. home is home. sensex is also dancing but yours should dnace positively. rest progress should continue. gaurang

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  2. Dear Kartik kaka

    great to hear the same. May your counts behave the good way and your visits to hospitals are minimised.

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  3. Hey! Looks like the date didn't get updated today! :)
    Super to hear that things are stable... and getting better!
    Slow and steady does it! Keep smiling!
    Love to Surbhi.

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  4. Thanks Milind and Gaurang bhai :)

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  5. Good to hear about the progress!

    That reminds me of something. For some typical geeky fun, take a look at this amazing video by Hans Rosling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVimVzgtD6w.

    Some day you might want to make a similar one for your various counts! Google actually bought this company and they provide a little tool to plot time series data like this and animate it.

    Looking forward to the next update,
    - Vin

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  6. Dear Vin,
    Yes the video was amazing! It's so nice to see people finding different ways to show data in attractive and entertaining way.

    You know I might actually do a 1 year plot of my blood counts using their tool. It would be nice to see the diseased bone marrow slowly recuperating as it undergoes chemo.

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  7. Kartik, like my favorite sports teams, it is sometimes hard to watch them rise and fall in the "standings" knowing you can not do anything for them. But we must :) Because that is what fans (and fans of you) do. Thanks for making your blog more compelling than ESPN...

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  8. LOL! Steve, that's such a good analogy. Yes, I am sitting in the stadium and just hoping my "Brewers" team has a great season this year :). I can make sure that I have all the fun tailgating, I root for my team to the fullest, cheer every home run while I enjoy peanuts and (root-) beer. :)

    Kartik

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  9. Kartik bhai

    Playing like Sehwag now :) ...
    Good to know that yaar. Take care and keep smiling.


    Sandeep

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