Tuesday, March 28, 2006
MCS looked over the Blood Draw results...
...and has this to say:
I faxed the doctor with her Health, BG and BP reviews this morning. In case you're wondering, the reason I don't publish her BG and BP reviews here is because all that information is over at The Dailies, although in a much less compact and handy form.
Later.
Mom looks anemic according to her RBC count and her hemoglobin level. Hypochromasia means that the color of the RBCs is lighter than normal. This can be caused by the fact that each cell has less than the normal amount of hemoglobin in it so it stains lighter. That also indicates anemia. Atypical lymphs are nothing to really worry about unless they are in large numbers. One over the high level is not a lot at all. Unfortunately atypical lymphs can be "made" by techs that are too enthusiastic when they make the slides (we had one tech that pressed so hard to make slides that most of the lymphs looked atypical). They can also be caused by any change in the body-including allergy attacks, transit viruses that really cause no disease, but can affect the body, to just a change in the metabolism of the body. It will be interesting to see if the doctor attaches any significance to this. Personally I wouldn't worry. If Mom had Mono her atypical lymph count would be up around the 60s or 70s and she would have many more lymphs than she has.Out of curiosity, I searched all Mom's test results and, besides this particular draw, she's shown Hypochromasia, usually "2", sometimes "3" on six other occasions, all of which have been accompanied by Hemoglobin in the "9" region. So, I'm not going to worry. So there.
I faxed the doctor with her Health, BG and BP reviews this morning. In case you're wondering, the reason I don't publish her BG and BP reviews here is because all that information is over at The Dailies, although in a much less compact and handy form.
Later.
