Experiments & Science

More than a week ago I saw one of THE experts for MPDs like mine. This might sound strange, but it was a lot of fun. In the way of thinking, he and I share a similar approach on medicine as a science. E.g. in case of MPDs, you have to monitor a lot of blood parameters, like hematocrit. I always wondered how comparable the numbers are, e.g. from one lab to the next or from just one sample to the next (which role has transportation time?). He was the first who confessed that he does not know (exactly), but who had studied those influencing factors systematically (like transportation time, temperature...).
The differences are huge!
Currently, he does research on how blood coagulates at a surface (I am surprised that this is not studied yet. But then, according to him, we do not even have a clue about possible chronobiological cycles of e.g. platelet count or hematocrit).
You might guess, I spend half of the entire time (2 hs) with his post-docs in the lab.

Back to my innermost reality, he runs some additional checks to verify polycythemia vera (PV) as my MPD-subtype. The bad thing, I do not have the results yet and the only other possibility is much worse than PV.

From my upbringing in a boarding school, I know how to obey the law. This is what I still do on the Chinese challenge. Of course, with experiments, it is at least double the fun (find the best container to bring warm breakfast to work).