{"id":15825,"date":"2016-03-21T19:10:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T19:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beardedgit.com\/?p=15825"},"modified":"2017-05-06T13:58:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T12:58:58","slug":"kicking-amls-ass-cycle-2-hither-and-thither","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/?p=15825","title":{"rendered":"Kicking AML\u2019s Ass: Cycle 2 – hither and thither"},"content":{"rendered":"

The phone-call didn't come, I had to make it myself. Still no word from the docs as to there being a plan, so I waited again for a call-back.<\/p>\n

When it arrived, it was no surprise... be in Day Ward on Tuesday morning. Blood tests and all that malarkey.<\/p>\n

No doubt I'll need platelets and\/or reds. Reds are ten-a-penny from the onsite blood-bank, but if it's platelets I hope the docs had the common-sense to order some in advance (i.e. before tomorrow) from Sheffield, Liverpool or wherever. I really can do without wasting tomorrow just being told to attend again for platelets on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

As to the bigger question of whether I'll be in or out, that depends not only on the blood test results but also on the availability of bed-space. Currently Ward 41 is full, with many other potential in-patients awaiting their turns.<\/p>\n

Day Ward... it's called that because no matter how much or how little treatment or testing you need, it always takes up enough time to screw up your whole day.<\/p>\n

Anyway, it's a well-known fact that Birmingham has more miles of canal than Venice. Less well-known is that I've had more miles of cannula than Birmingham:<\/p>\n

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Actually, that pic's probably a good representation of how I'll be sticking it to the junior docs if they don't get their act in gear.<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The phone-call didn’t come, I had to make it myself. Still no word from the docs as to there being a plan, so I waited again for a call-back. When it arrived, it was no surprise… be in Day Ward on Tuesday morning. Blood tests and all that malarkey. No doubt I’ll need platelets and\/or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1211],"class_list":["post-15825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-acute-myeloid-leukaemia-aml"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/cannulaescars.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15825"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16525,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15825\/revisions\/16525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beardedgit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}