Blood Checkup on Monday

The news is that I am fit as a fiddle and Surbhi is getting a well-deserved break from me and is visiting her relatives in Mumbai.  Consequently the Rindanis have unanimously decided that we will knock the door of our hospital only when the calendar heralds the date "2 Nov 2009".

I have been very silent in this space but believe me the reason is genuinely a good one.  I am slowly and gradually getting back my rhythm in office work and enjoying it immensely.  Unfortunately because of that whatever little creative part I have in my brain is utilized for work related problems :).

And to my two readers of "Psi Sickness" story, who withstood the obscure humour that I assailed  the readers with, I will be back with second part.  You still have 24 hours to dissuade me from writing the second installment :).

Platelets Due Today

After deftly managing the body for a month platelets have made a humble request to be replenished.  This morning I found a couple of clots in my inner cheek.  Please don't worry - these clots aren't as big as the ones I have seen in past.  Since there is half a unit of platelets available today in the blood bank the doctor thought we might as well make use of it.  Who knows, after this transfusion platelets will get breathing time to surge to a higher level :).

We don't intend doing a hemogram today so we will come to know the counts only on Monday.

Update: We did get the blood report done eventually before the transfusion and the results are there on the right.  Platelets drop wasn't worse than previous instances.  WBC have come back to their "normal level" :).

3200!

Wow it seems like I just got a Diwali bonus from my body.  The WBC count jumped to 3200 from 2100 in matter of few days!  I am just a whisker away from the normal WBC range.  Yay!

Blood Transfusion Today

My low hemoglobin is being taken care of today.  I shall be receiving two units of pack cells today.  There will be slight change in the procedure today because my central line was removed last week.  Central line is a tube which was inserted in my neck through jugular vein to avoid repeated pricking for administering intravenous medicines and transfusing blood.  It was very convenient, however, the sutures holding the tube came off repeatedly. When they came off this time the doctor decided that we can get rid of it since I don't need transfusion very often these days. So today they will be putting in an intracath.

I will be carrying my laptop to make three hours in daycare seem like one :).

Counts in a Good Mood :)

I am sure you happy seeing at least two columns on the right side table as I am.  WBC counts and platelet counts are looking awesome, platelets especially.  Last transfusion I got was roughly three weeks ago.  WBCs have also taken an incredible jump.

Don't let the hemoglobin drop worry you.  We are trying to find out how long should we wait before giving me blood transfusion.  Will keep you all posted.

Right now all I can say to my body is: "Jai Ho!" :)

Blood Report Due Tomorrow

Dear friends, I will be going for my weekly blood report tomorrow.  Let's see how it goes.  Health-wise I am doing really well.  In fact I started going physically to the office last week.  It was a welcome change from working from home.  There hasn't been been any signs of bleeding, so my platelets might be at a healthy level.

More details tomorrow.  Have a great weekend and the week ahead! 

Psi Sickness - Part I

Are you an owner of a vehicle that trudges on four legs, dispassionately referred to as tyres (and quite aptly "tires" in some countries)? Does the sight of tyre going sapless and hapless at the most inopportune moment leave you in cold sweat? Does it make you feel like a person who has just saved a drowning person but doesn't know how to resuscitate him? Have you ever been on a long drive - a drive well beyond the cozy confines of 1-800 emergency road services? And have you noticed that while your co-passengers are busy cooing oohs and aahs seeing the beautiful countryside, you are endlessly thinking whether your tyres are asymptomatic and at a healthy 30 psi? If the answers to our questions above were in affirmative we must sadly impart the news that you are suffering from Psi Sickness.

But there is hope. Air Apparent Academy can cure you! We will transform you from a nervous psi sick person to a person who is a jack-of-all-treads. Never again will you look at those miserable tyres with fear. On the contrary you, with your newly achieved alacrity, would want to fix every punctured tyre you come by on the road. We aren't didactic and have our own inimitable way of teaching you our subject of expertise.

Take for instance this couple from Pune. The wife is a daring adventurer and the husband a textbook case of psi sickness. Our tireless experts undertook his case and worked out the modus operandi to bring this pitiful bloke to normalcy.

It was learned that the couple was planning a drive to Lavasa - a picturesque hill city some 40 kms away from their home. Our surveillance center immediately apprised our experts, who within no time were on their drawing board and worked out the most unobtrusive plan to treat.