The Official Results

I am honestly in such a bad mood right now that I just want to crawl in a hole and not come out.. maybe ever.  If I could snap my fingers and cease to exist right now, I would.  I'm not going to get into the particulars of why I feel this way because it's probably not very interesting, but I felt it was pertinent, somehow, to mention it.  We all have bad days, right?

The real reason for this post is to let you know about my official lab results that I FINALLY got in my online chart (after what felt like eons.  And it would have been nice to have these results a little sooner, actually, because then I could have discussed it with my OB when I was there on Friday.  But for whatever reason, the lab felt the need to take forever.)

As far as I can remember, I've never had a CBC look like this before - with a ton of things just a little bit wrong.  First number is my value, and in the brackets is the standard range. (I've only recorded the noteworthy ones here. If it's not listed, then it wasn't remarkable.)

WBC (white blood cell):               13.3 [3.5-11.0]
RBC (red blood cell):                    3.17 [3.80-5.20]
Hgb:                                               10.8 [11.7-15.7]
Hct:                                                31.4 [34.9-46.9]
MCV (size of red blood cells):    98.9* [80-100]
*Not an out-of-range number,  but I've had trouble with high MCV for ages so I just posted it for comparative purposes.

My platelets look good though! So there's that.

And my comprehensive metabolic panel (CMP) didn't look too great either.

K (potassium):                    3.5 [3.7-5.5]
Glucose:                               72 (non fasting)
Creatinine:                          0.50 [0.60-1.30]
Total protein:                     5.6 [6.1-8.0]
Albumin:                             3.1 [3.2-4.9]

So there you have it.  Not the greatest set of results I've ever gotten.  But even though there's a lot of numbers out of the range, none of them are dire looking.  I'm not surprised to see a low hemiglobin number.  I'm anemic, and iron is necessary for making hemiglobin, so that explains that.  It also explains why I feel a little short of breath sometimes, and a little tired.

I am ready for this day to be over now.  I'm ready for this whole damn WEEK to be over!  Is it really only Tuesday?