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Monday, October 22, 2012

Can you come in to see the doctor?

So today, sitting in the cardiac ward I get a call from my clinic.. 'The doctor has the results back from your recent blood work and would like you to come in to discuss them'.  Gad.

Getting checked

Early September and the night sweats and fever are back. Energy level is dropping so, in I go to the Oasis clinic at Royal Oak to get checked. Basic blood work and X-rays . Slight anemia, slightly high LDL, slightly high white cells but nothing that causes alarm, or apparently gives any clue. Energy levels continue to plummet. I get an appointment with one of their family doctors to explore further.

Cough cough...

Back in the summer, maybe July, I got what I thought was a nasty summer cold/flu/bug. Coughed and hacked for several days, felt run down, the usual type of thing.
But there were two things that I did/got that I'd never experienced before. The first was incredible drenching night sweats. I mean soak the pyjamas, soak the bedding, soak the pillow. Huge amounts of perspiration. These sweats were accompanied by raging fever. My old Fahrenheit oral thermometer showed temperatures as high s 103.5. Like a furnace. 
After about a week, things were back to normal, I thought.