So my wife and I went in to get some blood work done on Tues Aug 16th. We just went to a local MediClinic the day before but the doctor sent me home for a day so I could fast before the tests. He was pretty sure that my bruise was just a bad injury, but since we insisted on getting all the tests done he let us and said he'd phone in a few days with any results. I got home from work on Tues and the Medi Clinic had phoned wanting to see me. That was fast, I thought. Of course when I phoned back they were closed so I just decided to phone from work the next day.
On my Wed lunch break I went down to the clinic to get my results. I didn't have to wait long before I was ushered into a room. The doctor came in right away and let me know that something was wrong. My platelet count (the cells in the blood that help clot the blood) were extremely low. A normal person has approx. 150,000 platelets. I had 16,000. I graduated from Commerce so I did the math. This wasn't good. The doctor insisted that I immediately see a specialist at the Emergency at the Royal University Hospital (RUH) and left the room to go make the arrangements. As I drove off to RUH I started thinking that this lunch break was definately going to be longer than 1 hour.
Stay tuned for "The Specialist" when this story continue...
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