Mystery of the Wavering Hemoglobin

The breakfast had gone cold much to the dismay of Mrs. Hudson. She gave a look of disapproval to Holmes who had immersed himself reading a pile of documents. They had just been delivered to him a few hours ago. They were from his client - a certain Mr. Kartik all the way from India. Watson stormed into the room excitedly to share an episode that took place with one of his patient when Holmes gesticulated him to stop by waving his arm and thereby making the storyteller in Watson livid.

"Humbug!", said Holmes, "Bah!" "It defies logic," he continued unfalteringly, "How can hemoglobin dip to 6.2 from 9.3 in matter of two days, Watson?"

"Well, it could happen to a patient who has profuse internal or external bleeding, or, someone who is in the midst of chemotherapy," said Watson, who was noticeably taken aback seeing Holmes uttering jargon from his field of expertise.

"My dear Watson, you always impress me with your excellent reasoning," said Holmes. Just when Watson was showing a countenance of satisfaction Holmes said, "But I am afraid, my friend, on this rare occasion you are wrong."

"My client showed no signs of bleeding except for a couple of petechial spots and neither is he undergoing chemotherapy. Petechial spots explains the dearth of platelets but doesn't explain the huge drop in hemoglobin," said Holmes. "Watson, let's step out and wire Mr. Kartik to get his hemogram done again because I smell something really suspicious here. Can you please shout out for a hansom, Watson. Mrs. Hudson, please take the malodorous eggs from the table! I am already nauseated by something else which smells fishy," said Holmes and stormed out of the room wearing his deerstalker cap.

:) For all you know the drop in hemoglobin can be explained but you know the dreamer in me always finds a route which isn't always the logical one. We intend getting the hemogram done again tomorrow to make sure that the drop was genuine and not due to a diluted sample. Chances are it was genuine - and chances are really strong. Stay tuned. Rest assured Holmes will get to the bottom of this :).

P.S.: Writeup is heavily inspired from one of the Sherlock Holmes episodes that I saw recently (Jeremey Brett version - the best Sherlock Holmes portrayal in my opinion).