Health Update

For those of you who read this blog for the health updates, this one's for you:

Platelet count on Monday August 21: 17,000

"Is that a good thing?" you may be asking yourself. The answer is NO. That is not a good thing.

Removing my spleen was suppose to solve the problem but unfortunately it hasn't. I was scheduled to go see the Specialist on Wednesday afternoon where we were going to do some tests to see if I had an auxillary spleen that is removing platelets. But since my count was so low on Monday I received sudden call from his office saying that I was now scheduled for 3 days of IV Gamma Globulin again. So I'm going to spend the next three mornings haning out with the nice nurses in Day Medicine while they pump me up with blood product again. I'm assuming my spleen test is still happening in the afternoon so I may just spend the whole day in the hospital. It will be a good chance to catch up on some sleep!

So that's the update. I'm pretty sure my soccer playing days are over for a while until we get this sorted out. I am bruising quite badly all the time and after the soccer games I look pretty bad so it's probably best I don't play for a while.