February 15th, 2006

conflicting numbers… 18? 19? 20?

The first set of results can in this morning, and my dad said “no way these are the numbers,” so they ran them again. Three times. And the numbers are? 18. 19. and 20. According to this lab, I dropped 11 or so points in a week… which is relatively unheard of.

And my albumen jumped to 3.6, from 2.8, another jump that has all the doctors stumped and surprised, and me ecstatic. If it continues to drop at this rate, I could be at a 9 by next week. WooHoo!

I’m less itchy, but I’m told I look the same—it’s a shade issue I suppose.

My dad had them run the tests several times, and tomorrow he wants the sample sent to the lab back home, to see what they come up with… see, to test for bilirubin in blood, they have to use a spectrometer test—i.e., shining light through the serum tail of the blood. Mine was so dark orange/yellow that they diluted it to get a better sample. And they were doing that back home as well, but the docs want to make sure all the machines give the same answer before giving me a definitive number.

For now, 19 and dropping. 🙂 That’s what I’m going with. And I’m ecstatic.

We’ll find out tomorrow the definites, but for now… we party. 🙂