Day +33

My Blood Count Today:
Red Blood Count (RBC) = 103(Normal 130-180)
Platelet = 100(Normal 150-150)
White Blood Count (WBC) = 2.4(Normal 4 - 11)
Potassium = 4.6(Normal 3.5 - 5.2)
Magnesium = 0.45(Normal 0.65 - 1.05)

This is my blood count for the first followup . There is a very good increase in platelet. The red blood count also increases from 94 to 103. The white blood count drops from 19.2 to 2.4. We still don't know it is still dropping or start to pick up. This will be confirmed on the second followup on Monday. The level of potassium is very good now. However, the body still experiences magnesium deficiency. I was given magnesium infusion, a process which lasted for 2 hours. My wife and I started our journey to hospital at 7:00am and only reached home at 3:00pm. We can reach home at lot earlier if I do not need magnesium infusion anymore.

I also experienced mild fluid retention on my feet. One way to determine whether fuild retention happens is to press the swelling part on the body and then release it. If the body surface does not bounce back immediately and is dented for a while , then fluid retention occurs. I told doctors I drink at least 5 litres of water everyday and they are quite surprised with this big amount of water intake. They advised me not to force myself to drink. In fact I never force myself. Everyday, I need 1.5 litres of water to swallow the pills. Apart from this, I drink about 1.0 litre of soup together with meal, 0.5 litre nutritious Ensure milk and 0.5 litre Ovaltine. Sometime I drink 0.5 litre green bean or read bean soup. This will sum up to a total of 4 litres of water already.

I told doctor I am taking fish ball soup most of the time and she asked me : "Why fish ball soup?" I could not answer her because I also don't know the answer. I think I need to ask my wife this question and hopefully she knows the answer. "Why not shark fin soup or curry chicken soup or prawn Tomyam soup or beef tandon soup...?" Thinking about these soup make me very hungry now.

I cannot write anymore because I need to find some food to eat. See you next post:-)