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Lab Results that Screech Something is Not Kosher
This post currently contains Amazon links, but I am no longer an Amazon affiliate. Links are provided for convenience only. Know your labs before you’re in crisis—because once you’re in the system, it might be too late to ask questions. If I hadn’t seen these labs myself… I still wouldn’t know the truth! Not once—not once—in all the pages of medical records did I find a note suggesting the sudden drop in H&H might be related to trauma. No mention of an actual trauma that may have occurred. No exploration of internal bleeding. Just a diagnosis of anemia. But when blood values plummet out of nowhere, shouldn’t someone ask why?…