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Low platelet count by Liz B. Posted Tue 31 Mar 2009 12:00am I can't start chemotherapy this week because my platelet count is low. Fortunately my white blood cell count is good. This can all be a blessing in disguise allowing me the opportunity to Attend the A's/Giants game on Thursday See Indian Valley Line on Friday Or, if my doctor allows, attend my grandmother's funeral in New Jersey When the platelets go Read on »

Platelet Count Too Low by Jamie Donaldson Posted Fri 11 Sep 2009 2:15pm We picked Kozmo up yesterday evening hoping that his huge mass would be removed. It turns out that he couldn't even have surgery because his platelet count was at a low... (where his body fights itself). If he doesn't, we will give him steroids to help his platelet count and then he can have that thing removed. If he does, there is not much we can do Read on »

Blood & Platelet Donations Needed by Kelly Patient Expert

Posted Tue 02 Dec 2008 4:14pm with age, I never got around to doing something so simple, and so life saving. And now here I am with a specific type of cancer that requires lots of transfusions, platelets and other blood products. So far I've had 4 units of blood, 3 units of platelets and 3 units of other blood products. I haven't even been here a week. We've gotten a lot Read on »

Need Blood and Platelet Donations by Kelly Patient Expert

Posted Tue 26 May 2009 10:09pm If you are in Southern California and your blood type is A Positive, I could use your platelets. I was supposed to get Platelets today but the blood bank was out of my type. I need type specific platelets as O negative gives me a rash. The nurse told me that the bank is critically low right now on blood and platelets. To donate to me Read on »

Donating Blood and Platelets by xoxomarebear Patient Expert

Posted Tue 03 Mar 2009 3:09pm Please remember to consider donating blood and/or platelets if you can. It would be a nice way to remember and honor Vivienne, whose life depended on such donations during her treatment. By helping other kids with their battles, and anyone who has been in an accident or has an illness, you would be doing a wonderful and brave service. So, do Read on »

Blood, Platelets, G Shot and Chemo - Oh My! by xoxomarebear Patient Expert

Posted Sat 20 Dec 2008 7:14pm (more than 2 hours) Platelet transfusion (one hour and 3o minutes) The payoff is that all of this will truly help her to feel better. She is currently neutropenic in her nadir, with an ANC of zero. Getting the blood and platelets tend to make her a bit sick to her stomach for the first day (but not too badly), and afterwards really perk her up Read on »

NHS still counting the cost of smoking by GoToSee Healthy Living Professional

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Posted Tue 07 Oct 2008 7:08pm A new report has claimed that treatment for smoking related disease is costing the NHS £2.7billion compared with £1.7billion ten years ago. And that figure could have been closer to £3billion if the number of people now smoking hadn’t fallen from 12 to 9 million, according to the anti-smoking... [[This is a summary of the main post. To read more Read on »

Count The Cost by Take Root and Write .. Patient Expert

Posted Sun 14 Mar 2010 9:30pm is great, so before you say, "Yes," count the cost. Discipleship requires you to leave your life as you have planned and to wholly follow Me. If you are not willing to forsake..., but not everyone is willing to pay the price of being saved. Have you counted the cost? Are you following salvation into discipleship, forsaking your life to live fully to Me? Believe Me Read on »

Counting the cost of cancer by Stephanie Butland Posted Mon 24 Aug 2009 12:31pm I've often wondered what cancer actually costs the world. Not necessarily in terms of the human cost, the emotional cost, the time-you-no-longer-have cost: in terms of the pounds and pence. I've made a couple of half-hearted attempts to find out. I know that my year of herceptin will cost £50,000 or thereabouts. (Plus eighteen days and at least Read on »

Counting the Costs... by Breathingthroughschool Patient Expert

Posted Mon 25 Aug 2008 6:29pm Both Freadom and Djanvk have been recently blogging about the cost of healthcare in the United States. In Freadom’s post he questions whether the United States..., but that is a whole other can of worms. No system is truly free, I mean I don’t pay anything upfront, but the money has to be recovered somehow. In the States, the cost is recovered Read on »