Lab and imaging and blood work results all appear, quickly, via email. Too quickly. They arrive, tempting you to open them and read them and try to make sense of values and <'s and >'s and long words with Latin or Greek roots.
They arrive before the physician receives them, or so we've been told many, many times. And so, we wait. Waiting for a phone call promised within a day or two, only it's been four days and okay, two of them were the weekend, but still......
There are people in our orbit who could interpret them. Dr. Google is always available. But the medical people started this and they ought to close the loop. They have the expertise and our trust.
I wish they would act like they deserve it.
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I'm purposely oblique in these posts because it's not my story to tell.
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I will reluctantly chuckle about interpreting those medical reports that get sent out. I'm grateful we are kept in the loop, but we are NOT medical professionals and so interpretation leaves much to be desired.
ReplyDeleteTerry has received many that I feel could be the basis for a doctoral thesis! The vocabulary. The terms. It's all just facts, though, with no interpretation thrown in. Terry's blood count dropped a month after his first PRRT causing the second one to be postponed to some time... I had to cancel hotel reservations and make new ones for new dates they sent, not knowing when Terry's blood might be "good enough."
I asked his team, via a video call, what we could do. I was thinking supplements, foods, etc. Their answer, "give the bone marrow time." I shot back, "so time is the prescription?" YES was their reply.
So, there you have it...time. It is often the best medicine.
At least you got to talk to someone!
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