The table on the right may disappoint some of my readers but not me. Platelets have almost halved themselves. However, take a look at the last day when I was transfused with them. It was a good six days ago. Shelf life of platelets is typically three to four days, at the end of which my count goes into danger level of 5000 to 6000 platelets. But my count at the end of six days is 13,000. Something tells me platelets have gotten rid of their stage fright and have started performing. Today on sixth day, I am still not showing any signs of bleeding anywhere. Would my body pleasantly surprise me by showing a count of 13,000 or more in my next report? Thanks to all the iron-rich food that Surbhi and Maa are feeding me with my hemoglobin is also rising up.
Our trips to hospital have been pretty much eventless. All we go for is my routine blood checkup every alernate day. Everything gets done by an hour or so and we are back home. I haven't met my doctor for quite some time now though I am sure he is keeping a tab on my reports. Till last week the hospital also looked uncharacteristically empty perhaps because of H1N1 panic. The daycare, which usually overflows with patients, showed just two appointments on the whiteboard. The general and private wards were emptier too.
I feel that my ascent towards recovery is finally ending. I am looking forward to seeing all my woes, lying at the base of the mountain I just climbed, looking trivial and unnoticeable like specks of dirt from the summit.
Chi Kartik: Keep it up. We are eagerly awaiting the improvement in blood picture. Let it progress as desired. Is it the Ganeshotsav effect? Do you take ladoos in prasadam or not?
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Sugnafai I can definitely have ladoos as far as they are steamed :).
ReplyDeleteWay to go Platelets! :)
ReplyDeleteAs for your trip up the mountain, Katty... here's what Richard Nixon had to say...
"Only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."
Keep smiling!
Good quote Farah! Thanks :)
ReplyDeleteI would say be there at the top of the mountain if not keep going up :)
ReplyDeleteI told you, your counts have entered in one way and they must obey the trafic rule.
Best of luck for next report
Thank you so much Milind :). I have conveyed your positive message to my body :).
ReplyDeletedo not worry even after a small dip in the platelets count. we shall overcome that also...
ReplyDeleteYes, Milind I am still happy to see that I am still at 9k after good 7 days of platelets transfusion, something which hasn't happened so far :).
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