doctor visit

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Finally had a complete check-up at the doctor's today. Everything appears to be A-OK, including the results from those blood tests I took long ago but never myself got the results from, so I'm pretty psyched. For the sake of my parents' burning curiosity, I found out my blood type, and called my mom and told her. (It's B negative.) She got all excited and spent a while speculating out loud how I might have inherited this. She is bizarre and cute sometimes, my mom.



It occurred to me during the doctor visit that I should relate the story of those strange and scary inner-back pains I had many months ago, which had me down for a weekend and then went away, and earned me mockery from the telephone nurse when I thought it was appendicitis. From my description, the doc today seemed fairly certain that the culprit was a teeny-tiny kidney stone, saying how-do-you-do and then finding its own way out. Yikes.

Actually, I sort of suspected this at the time, and undertook a campaign to hydrate, hydrate, hydrate, trying to ounce-for-ounce my coffee and straight-up water consumption. Since then I've had no such complaints at all, so... yeah, pretty good, I guess. (The doc still smirked at my statement of koffee konsumption, but didn't advise me to cut back. Only real advice was: stay good on the hydration, and maybe exercise a little more.)

Comments

[keimel.livejournal.com]

B negative huh? Does it scare you that I'm the same blood type? Apparantly this is not a common type and I've been called in twice in the past to donate apparantly due to this fact.

Wow, doing a little bit of research indicates that a full blood type rivals the geek code in complexity:

For example:
O Rh negative: D- C-E-c+e+, M+S-, Le(a-), K-, Fy(a+b-), Jk(a+b-) CMV-

That's a full blood type, much more than the simple ABO type.

*shrug*