The Cellar / What is harshing your mellow today?

**Posted by Clodfobble** 4/21/2022 6:39 pm

That sucks. I hope you feel better soon.

**Posted by monster** 4/21/2022 8:17 pm

boo to pain and $$$ (I tolerate the latter less well)

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 4/22/2022 3:40 am

Clodfobble wrote:
...feel better soon.

That's a little strange about this thing, I feel fine, health-wise. There's a little discomfort from the tests left over, but besides feeling tireder (?), more tired (better) than usual, I've had no symptoms at all. This all started from routine blood work.

Do that routine blood work, ppl. Might save ya life.

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 4/22/2022 11:05 am

High WBC, unpleasant BMB, WW for 20+ years with few symptoms.
Hang in there.

**Posted by fargon** 4/22/2022 11:33 am

Get well soon or I'll sick my Cat on you.

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 5/14/2022 11:23 am

TheNeverWas wrote:
A normal white blood cell count is like 4800 - 11,000, or something like that...My wbc was 60,800.

My oncologist just called with some of my lab results from yesterday.

My white blood cell count was 14,000. Mellow mostly unharshed.

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 5/14/2022 12:11 pm

Don't suppose that nearly normal WBC calls dx into question does it?
Or is that pricey med working?

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 5/14/2022 10:05 pm

Dx? I don't know what that is.

Nor BMB, or WW...

**Posted by Clodfobble** 5/15/2022 7:05 am

Dx is diagnosis, he's saying maybe since your white blood cell count is so solid, they might have been wrong in the first place about what you have.

I once had a WBC of over 300,000 (taken from a spinal tap, when a case of meningitis that turned out to be caused by West Nile virus put me in the hospital for 4 days.) That was fun.

**Posted by Diaphone Jim** 5/15/2022 11:13 am

Clod is correct about meaning of dx and about my reason for asking.
BMB is bone marrow biopsy and WW is waiting and watching.
If you would like me to stop commenting about your situation, just ask.

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 5/15/2022 3:27 pm

If I was that sensitive about it I wouldn't have said anything. I just didn't know what the fuck you were talking about.

Comment away. Hell, I might learn accidentally something.

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 5/15/2022 3:33 pm

I have been on Allopurinol for the past 30 days, as well as the Imatinib (for 2 weeks), so I'm guessing that accounts for the lowering white count. We'll have to see how stable that count is.

@ Clod: My doc said one of her patients consistently has a wbc over 350,000, and shows no symptoms. I almost said 'Well fukkit, let's wait for 350,000 then.'

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**Posted by Clodfobble** 5/16/2022 7:11 am

And that lady's name... was Typhoid Mary.

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 5/16/2022 2:19 pm

Stop that, stoppit right now.

**Posted by monster** 5/16/2022 4:53 pm

My WBC is all over the place all of the time. They can never find anything and they've given up trying, I think Some of us are just weird, and if we weren't, all the normal people would have nothing to be smug about

you're all welcome.

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 5/17/2022 2:12 am

We are a variable animal.

**Posted by xoxoxoBruce** 5/20/2022 3:24 am

Just a pawn in the game of life.

**Posted by DanaC** 5/20/2022 2:07 pm

Now I want prawns...

**Posted by TheNeverWas** 5/21/2022 2:23 pm

Dammit, now I want prawns!!

Big sons-o-bitches, w/butter and garlic, on a grill...

**Posted by monster** 5/21/2022 4:22 pm

for those who needed a reminder, pawn and porn are pronounced in the same way in British English.....
.
.....and because I thought it......... prawn porn exists......

**Posted by Clodfobble** 5/22/2022 10:30 pm

I've never thought about it before--but is that why Brits seem to always go out of their way to say the whole word "pornography?"

**Posted by footfootfoot** 5/23/2022 5:08 pm

or that World Wide Web is actually shorter then WWW

**Posted by monster** 5/23/2022 6:07 pm

Clodfobble wrote:
I've never thought about it before--but is that why Brits seem to always go out of their way to say the whole word "pornography?"

I think context makes it clear? Although I think they are/were more likely to say "watching a porno" than watching porn...???

I never said pornography (too lazy) but I was certainly taught not to use abbreviations in speech unless just chatting with friends, so maybe it's something to do with that? But I had a weird upbringing. My mother was convinced we had royal or divine tiger blood or something, and enforced all sorts of weird etiquette rules

**Posted by Clodfobble** 10/21/2022 9:30 am

I have to schedule a lab test. I called the number two days ago, and was told my hold time was 73 minutes. But I could request a callback instead! So I did, and then instead of keeping me in a normal queue, they informed me that my scheduled callback time would be the next day between 1:00-2:00pm. Well, okay, I guess. I had a series of meetings starting at 2:00, but they said between 1:00-2:00.

So the next day, they call at 2:15, and leave me a message about how I should call them back (and presumably get back into the main queue and start the whole thing over). So I do, at 4:35... And I get an automated message saying they are closed from 4:30 onward for staff training.

So TODAY I call them at 9:00am, and I'm told that my hold time is 39 minutes. Okay, fuck it. I'll sit here and wait. It's 9:30. What do you think the odds are that someone will actually pick up in another 9 minutes?

**Posted by Clodfobble** 10/21/2022 10:14 am

Update: HAHAHAHAHAHA.... HA.... ha...

After 44 minutes, they hadn't picked up, and then one of the kids let the big rowdy dog outside, and he got fully caked with mud so badly that he had to get in the bath. So I had to hang up.

I'm now back on hold with a 50-minute answer time.

Ha.