Week 35 now, I feel like I’m being swept along on a tidal
wave of time with no way to apply the brakes.
MS wise everything currently remains uneventful and rather
dull. I’m bobbing along relapse and symptom free, whilst I’m aware that I still
‘have MS’ I certainly don’t feel like I ‘have MS’ any more.
My blood results are back for Month 7 – A bit funky this
month wil high White Blood Cell count, high Hypochromic RBC% and also High
Neutrophils which are all as expected bearing in mind I’ve had the winter lurgy
over Christmas and felt pretty crappy with my body fighting the infection.
Having watched those video’s about the immune function the levels don’t surprise
me or concern me, and I’m sure the team would have something to say if it
concerned them.
Lower Level
|
Upper Level
|
Pre-Lem BASELINE
|
November
|
December
|
January
|
|
Blood
|
||||||
Haemoglobin
|
120
|
160
|
144
|
141
|
130
|
138
|
WBC Count
|
4.0
|
11.0
|
11.9
|
8.3
|
9.8
|
11.6
|
Plt count
|
150
|
500
|
289
|
269
|
263
|
336
|
Rbc count
|
3.8
|
5.8
|
4.67
|
4.48
|
4.32
|
4.32
|
Haematocrit
|
0.36
|
0.47
|
0.445
|
0.434
|
0.417
|
0.42
|
MCV
|
76
|
103
|
95.3
|
97
|
96.5
|
97.4
|
MCH
|
27
|
32
|
30.7
|
31.5
|
30.1
|
32
|
MCHC
|
300
|
360
|
323
|
325
|
312
|
329
|
RDW
|
11
|
16
|
13
|
12.5
|
12.5
|
12.8
|
Hypochromic RBC %
|
0
|
2.5
|
0
|
1
|
3
|
6
|
Neutrophils
|
1.8
|
8
|
8.09
|
6.72
|
7.94
|
9.4
|
Lymphocytes
|
1.3
|
4
|
2.5
|
0.66
|
0.88
|
0.93
|
Monocytes
|
0.2
|
0.8
|
0.83
|
0.5
|
0.59
|
0.7
|
Eosinophils
|
0
|
0.8
|
0.24
|
0.17
|
0.2
|
0.23
|
Basophils
|
0
|
0.3
|
0.12
|
0.08
|
0
|
0
|
Liver Function
|
||||||
Bilirubin
|
0
|
21
|
9
|
5
|
5
|
3
|
ALT
|
0
|
60
|
21
|
15
|
14
|
16
|
Alkaline Phosphatase
|
30
|
130
|
51
|
44
|
49
|
50
|
Albumin
|
35
|
50
|
45
|
42
|
40
|
43
|
Thyroid Function
|
||||||
TSH
|
0.35
|
4.5
|
3.3
|
3.4
|
1.88
|
|
Urea and Electrolytes
|
||||||
Sodium
|
133
|
146
|
139
|
139
|
147
|
143
|
Potassium
|
3.5
|
5.3
|
4.7
|
4.4
|
4.3
|
4.4
|
Urea
|
2.5
|
7.8
|
3.8
|
5.8
|
3.2
|
4.4
|
Creatine
|
44
|
97
|
62
|
78
|
63
|
70
|
eGFR per 1.73sq m
|
60
|
99999
|
>90
|
>87
|
>90
|
>90
|
In other news 2016 is now being referred to as ‘Crash Year’ –
not MS crash, but CAR CRASH – This morning I killed the courtesy car I have while
mine is in in being mended from the prang on Jan 9th. Fortunately nobody
hurt, just broken car parts once more. This one is going to be fun with
insurance as it was provided by the insurer or the last man who hit me not my
insurer which seems to have melted the rental agencies heads – I’m now driving
a replacement hire car for my hire car and for the first time in the history of
forever - a motorbike killed a car and remained undamaged.
We are off into London this weekend to go to the Theatre to
see Hangman, we haven’t ever been to the Theatre together which is most odd
given that my husband was a professional actor for many years, helped run a
theatre company and produced a number of performances as well as starring in
them. I must have had a brain fart when I asked Gareth if he fancied it
(thinking he might not) his response was he’d go to a theatre to watch a performance
of ‘opening a door’ (it’s been a VERY long time since he worked with Judy Dench
and Paul McGann – that’s my story and I’m sticking to it)
So 2016 so far has been SMASHING ….. let’s hope that I’m
done now on the breaking cars front.
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