I went to the Lied(pronounced leed) Transplant Center in Omaha for consultation. Nice place, very nice people, appointments were all on time and well coordinated. Only hitch was when I went for the BMB, I had been told over the phone that I could have sedative, either by IV or local, when I went in they said no we don’t do sedatives other than at the injection site. She said my blood pressure was high and was I apprehensive? I said no, I was pissed about being lied to. The BMB went ok, they knew what they were doing. It was the smoothest of the five I have had.
As far as the consultation; the bad news was there was no good news, and the good news was that there was no bad news. I will continue without treatment hopefully for a long time, I still keep an eye out for Santa at Christmas so I may be too optomistic.
my platelets were 79k and whites 38.5, not much change. I go back in two weeks for BMB results, I don’t expect any surprises, I am going to have them take over primary care, it is only a two hour drive and I was impressed with the Doctor.
On the way to Omaha we heard an anti-drug message on the radio, he said that a study showed that pot decreases the WBC, so I thought hmmm, good question for the Doc, since I have high counts. Asked her sort of tounge in cheek, thought she would have a stroke. I told her that I was sure that the preacher on the radio never thought there would be a 63 year old guy thinking “that sounds promising”.
Jack
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