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Old Sun Jan 30, 2011, 10:00 PM
Ryan Jay Ryan Jay is offline
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Good times with my hemo!

My hematologist and I are both total wise asses! Sometimes, when it's quiet in the infusion room and we have just the regulars being treated, we'll play little pranks on the nurses.

She knows the kind of irreverent humor that wins me over.

I'll never forget the time that my counts started to rebound and I asked her if I had any restrictions on coffee or alcohol.

Her reply:

"Do you want to get drunk? Yes Ryan, let me call the pharmacist and see if we can get you drunk! If I had aplastic anemia, I would want to get drunk too. Do you want to do drugs as well?"

You have to imagine it in the voice of a 50-year-old woman with an Indian accent, and then it's WAY funnier.

This is a woman who had identified my symptoms and made the diagnosis almost on the spot, when other doctors were still floundering around guessing. I knew she was a keeper!!

*Haystack Calhoun was a rather large hairy old-school wrestler who wore overalls.
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Ryan Jay: 38-yo, dx SAA: 7/25/10, ATG: 8/10/10. CR with counts still rising. HGB: 13, Plt: 137 WBC 5.1 ANC
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