Answer: Not having chemotherapy!
Apparently my neurophils are not up to muster.
They are the most abundant type of white blood cell and can kill and ingest bacteria.
They were 1.22 yesterday and today are 1.35 they need to be 1.50.
So I have to to back next week instead.
Possibly the most annoying aspect of this is that the path lab used to do the blood count while the nurse waited, usually about 10minutes or so. But now the manager of the lab has decided that this is no longer possible and the wait is now about 1 hour. So I sat with my IV dripping saline twiddling my thumb (couldn't do both as my right hand was tied up!) until the very apologetic nurse came with my test results.
Had I been able to have my chemotherapy this would have put everyone back by about 1 hour. Clearly this is what happened on my first visit as I had to wait about 1 hour after my appointment until they could deal with me.
No doubt the manager of the path lab has improved the path lab's service for everyone's benefit!
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