Here’s Where I Dazzle You With My Dual Function Blog

I will now attempt to tell you the status of my health since yesterday while concurrently proving that my father is senile (if not completely, at least partially).

Cell Phone Transcript from noon today:
Father: Where are you?

Me: At the hospital, where I told you I would be this morning.

Father: What did the doctor say?

Me: Well, he said that he’s not too worried about the blood in the urine. Based on the description I gave him, that the blood only came at the very end of urinating and not from start to finish, he said that it was most likely a surgical scab coming off where the ureter meets the bladder and then bleeding into the bladder. If the kidney were bleeding, all of the urine from beginning to end would be red. But, he is worried because my white blood cell count was even lower today and its at a dangerous low right now. If I get a virus, I’ll need to hospitalized right away. So he’s going to prescribe an injection of Neupogen which is drug that will quickly stimulate the production of white blood cells. They use it alot for HIV and leukemia patients.

Father: Well, what’s causing that???

Me: The doctor says that after the transplant, sometimes people slow their production of white blood cells especially considering I’ve been taking Cellcept which also slows WBC production. It happens all the time, apparently, but some people get it worse. I guess I hit the jackpot. Anyway he wants me to stop taking the Cellcept for awhile.

Father: Yeah, but WHAT’S causing it?

Me: Um….I just told you. I gotta go.

(hang up)

Me: (talking to disconnected phone) I could CHOKE you!

Keep in mind that I work with my father, so we talk on a daily basis. I don’t think a single day goes by that he doesn’t ask me the same question twice anymore, although they are not usually consecutive as they were above.