Close To Zero
BorgHealth might be stuck with that nom de blog here due to some unfortunate early impressions, but I’m liking my drones at the moment. Went in yesterday for routine follow-up bloodwork from the prostate cancer (five year survivor in July). As opposed to visits past, I didn’t have to unshovel the piles on my desk looking for a lab slip that my doctor gave me months ago. There were no embarrassing questions about the coffee cup stains or other marks on their precious little form. The lab request was in their computer and I walked in, showed my Drone ID, and was whisked back to a private cubicle to have some blood siphoned out.
Normally I would then stress for a week until I talked to my doctor and learned the new magic number. The amount of PSA in my blood that hopefuly indicates whether the cancer is still dead or is growing and trying to kill me. Now though, safely esconced in the 21st century, BorgHealth e-mailed that my lab results were ready and let me look at the raw number online. If I understand the system right, as this goes on for the next seventy years or so (f$%^ five- and ten-year survival odds) the system will even display a little graph of the magic number. Technically it graphed today’s number, but one point does not an interesting slope make.
And yes, I am very happy with today’s magic number (<.1).
I like those numbers too!
Great to hear Chuck!
Continued good numbers and good health, Chuck! With all best wishes from northern New England (and gotta love the photo of you and Spinnerdude). Cheers and happy summer! Rob