Good blood test results, but no sleep!

I went to have my monthly IV-IG infusion yesterday. The nurses always do blood tests before they start, and I was pretty pleased to see that my WCC and neutrofils had come back into the normal range! They'd been down for the past couple of months ...

WCC - 4.4 (normal range 4.0 - 11.0)
Neutrophils - 2.6 (2.0 - 8.0)
Platelets - 123 (150 - 450)

Platelets are still down but they may well always be down! In fact, looking at the previous post they were exactly the same then (July)!!

I'm seeing Dr B again next month before the December infusion. He's ordered up some extra blood tests that I'll get done before I go and see him. Hopefully all will be well! :)

However, I should note that it's actually 4.00am right now! I am not sure that I have slept at all - if I did it was only for 15 minutes here and there! I'm feeling OK at the moment but I don't expect I will by the end of the work day ... sigh! I'm wondering if this is because of one of the drugs they give me prior to the infusion, to stop reactions. Some 'cortico steroid'? Does that sound right? Who knows ... ! Anyway, I think I'm going to refuse to have this drug again next time. I really don't like tossing and turning all night! I'll see what the doctor says at least!

A couple of days ago it was the Melbourne Cup - the (horse) 'race that stops the nation'! It's one of those things like the Grand National in England. Everyone at work has Melbourne Cup lunches, wears silly hats and gets big TVs in to watch the race at work! And then there are the sweeps. You know - you put in $1, $2, $5 (whatever the amount for that sweep) and you are randomly assigned a horse. Well, one of the young IT Helpdesk guys was persuaded to set 2-3 of these these up for our department, despite protestations that he didn't know how to. So he spent I would estimate at least a day setting up these complex Excel spreadsheets that would randomly assign a horse to a person. And then we discovered after the race that he hadn't realised that he had to 'fill' each sweep! And there was at least one sweep where the winning horse hadn't been assigned to anyone!

I don't think he's ever going to live this down! I told the nurses and they all fell about laughing! At least he's ensured he won't be roped in to do this again next year!!