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Wednesday, February 15, 2006

You want how much blood?

Yikes! Yesterday I took myself to the Doc for a 50,000 mile checkup and part of the expected procedure was the regular blood tests to see how well all my systems are performing. After doing the 12 hour fasting business, I dragged my hungry, non-caffeinated carcass to the lab this morning for the ritual poking. The Doc had done a lot of writing on that little lab slip and it took Debby the phlebotomist a number of minutes to gather all the tubes required for my draining. I think it took 4 tubes to get all the tests covered...

Now I'm no longer hungry and the caffeine flow has restarted but I'm still feeling lethargic. I wonder why...

BTW, initial answers from the Doc yesterday were that I was seemingly healthy with nothing but my excess weight and my cigar smoking as concerns. Nothing else he poked or prodded seemed out of the ordinary. Hopefully the blood tests will also support a diagnosis of generally healthy enough.

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