Can I please
be in the Vial Olympics? I don’t expect to be in the real ones. Heck, I doubt
they’d even give someone this unathletic a seat on the back row.
But blood
samples I got. At my last lab
appointment, this is what I saw waiting for me on the table:
That’s right.
SEVENTEEN vials to fill. Have you ever heard of such a collection? There should be
several gold medals hanging around my neck right now. Although I’d probably be
too weak to support them and they’d pull me down onto the floor.
It’s not that
I don’t appreciate thorough testing. It’s
that I start to wonder if this sort of thing could be sponsored by the
transfusion center. And how can you get an accurate reading of anemia if you
withdraw all your blood? (Yes, I came out anemic.)
Seriously,
doesn’t this make you want to start humming that old “99 Bottles of Beer on the
Wall” song, only with the lyrics, “99 vials of blood on the wall”?
Among the
many tests we ran, one was for my Vitamin B-12 count. You’ll like this. The normal range is from 211 to 911
pg/mL. Guess what mine was?
5,353
That’s right. Five THOUSAND something. And I don’t get a gold medal for this? I say
it’s just time to end all the vial-ence.
Time to
check out my short Youtube Mom life hack videos, too, before I keel over.
That's because you are on a "trial" that helps all the folks after you. I'll say thanks for all the folks that come after you to get your same treatment for their cancer treatment to save their lives.
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