Third Blood Test Results - Week 5-6

Here are the results to my third blood test. These are a little bit late as I had the test done at the beginning of last week. They came in at about the 5 1/2 to 6 week mark. Broadly speaking, I was happy with the results, although also I felt I could have made a little more progress perhaps. My platelets seem to have gone into abnormal again. All my liver and kidney functions appear to be on point and the only abnormal stats were in my full blood count.

Here is the video that details the results. Let me know what you think in the comments below.

My Second Blood/Liver/Kidney Tests

Here are the second blood results I have had from blood taken at the beginning of last week (Monday - it's Sunday now). There are some interesting changes that I will talk briefly about.

My Blood Results AND My Liver/Kidney Function Results

I told you in previous posts that, when I had my blood tests done, they only tested for my haematology. Because I could only find, on my medical records published online, my blood results and not my liver and kidney function results, I thought that they hadn't tested for them. I sent an email through to my GP and spoke as well to my MS nurse to request that these tests were done. I met with my GP on Monday this week and he told me that the tests had been done but they just hadn't been uploaded online. Well, they are there now. So here are all of my results for you to check out. I will talk about them a little bit at the end.

Blood Test Analysis

I recently received my first blood test results back, which were interesting to get back. In the UK, you can access your patient records online so I was able to access and see my results online. There wasn't too much I couldn't understand (with a little help from Google), so I looked them up and down and here they are! I do have to say that they di not test for half the things I requested so will be an email to the surgery...

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Cleanliness Tips and Blood Tests

Getting back from the clinic raises its own risks and requirements. Things can happen when you least expect them, as can be seen by the fact that my HSCT buddy, Frank, ended up in hospital back in Norway soon after he returned. I am not sure whether it was an infection, a false alarm or whatnot, but the take-away lesson is that you can't take any risks or take things for granted.

Your house is your castle for the next however long. Personally, I go for a walk once or twice a day, extending it each time, to get my legs up to speed, but don't really leave the house much at all elsewise. Therefore, the house is the main place to control in a way that suits my present needs.

In this video, I talk a little about managing those risks at home and prepare to go out to get my blood tested at my local GP's surgery.

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Neck Catheter

The one piece of equipment that will stay with you for your entire time during your HSCT treatment is the net catheter. Yes, it might change side and they do change over from a two tube catheter to three tube one at one point. However, the catheter will become simply part of you. And what a useful appendage it is. When they come to take blood tests from you in the morning, and you're barely awake, they just plug in these tubes into your neck and take the blood straight from your jugular. No needles into your arms, just a simple tube straight into your jugular vein!

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