Long time, no blog - that's because I was down with dengue. After sending out the Pongal greetings, I felt the classic symptoms of dengue, but as usual, I kept putting off the visit to the doctor for a couple of days. I finally consulted a doctor on 18th Jan. He put me on antibiotics and said we'll watch for a couple of days - like patient, like doctor.
:-D
On 20th since I was not feeling any better, I consulted him again and then we decided to go in for a blood test. Viola, I tested positive for dengue - more than (almost) 1 OD - IgM at 0.956 and IgG at 1.672 OD.
More worrying was the ‘platelet’ count which was down to 1.28 lakhs / cmm (normal 1.5 – 3.5).
The doctor at first wanted me to be hospitalized immediately for blood supplements and what not, but after cooling down a little, allowed me 1 day to get the count up. He put the condition that if the count went up by say 5000 or so, we can continue with home treatment, else it is the hospital. To cut the story short, I did a ‘platelet’ count test on Friday, 22nd and it was at 1.53 – which is in the normal range.
:-)<
So that’s the story for this week – still taking it easy – doctor’s advice to take it very very nice and easy for this week. Lots to blog about – looking forward to weekend.
:-D
On 20th since I was not feeling any better, I consulted him again and then we decided to go in for a blood test. Viola, I tested positive for dengue - more than (almost) 1 OD - IgM at 0.956 and IgG at 1.672 OD.
More worrying was the ‘platelet’ count which was down to 1.28 lakhs / cmm (normal 1.5 – 3.5).
The doctor at first wanted me to be hospitalized immediately for blood supplements and what not, but after cooling down a little, allowed me 1 day to get the count up. He put the condition that if the count went up by say 5000 or so, we can continue with home treatment, else it is the hospital. To cut the story short, I did a ‘platelet’ count test on Friday, 22nd and it was at 1.53 – which is in the normal range.
:-)<
So that’s the story for this week – still taking it easy – doctor’s advice to take it very very nice and easy for this week. Lots to blog about – looking forward to weekend.
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