My co-worker is sick and I have questions can you help?

July 5, 2008

My co-worker had felt bad for the longest time. She has zero energy,

pale, her left side hurts under her rib, and she gets a bruse just by

looking at her. Our work has just gotten ins. but we can't use it

until Ayg. 1. She thought her blood was low so I went with her to

give blood. The Red Cross checked her blood to see if her count was

high enough to give and it was. That was the only way I knew to do it

because we didn't want anything to show pre-existing before Aug. She

says she feels something pulling on her left side under her rib when

she picks up stuff put always feels so pain there. She is tried when

she arrives at work. She just cries because she wants to feel better

but can't. Does anyone know what it feels like to how a enlarged

spleen? Could this be myelogenous leukemia? I dir. a crisis

pregnancy center and we have a ultrasound machine that we could

checkout her spleen and maybe our volunteer doc. would read it.

Please help guide me in helping her.

July 5, 2008

Angie

I hear desperation in your email and I hesitate to respond to you

because I am not a doctor and my best sense tells me your co-worker

needs to see one NOW regardless of insurance. CML usually has a high

level white count at diagnosis. That would have shown up on the test

to donate - provided the techs doing it did it right. It could be

really dangerous to self diagnose from an ultra sound or a smattering of

information you gather from here and there. Sometimes as urgent as it

may be to get information, going on the various sites and getting enough

to scare you - - is not a good idea.

Try an urgent care. Try to locate the state program where they can

examine and test for things. Each state has a health cost containment

system for folks without insurance. I may be wrong, but I also think

that the fees for treatment may be different with folks not having any

insurance. At any rate, get her to a doctor and let them do what they

do best.

Your co-worker should be seen and examined soon by a liscensed,

qualified and competent doctor.

Barb

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> My co-worker had felt bad for the longest time. She has zero energy,

> pale, her left side hurts under her rib, and she gets a bruse just by

> looking at her. Our work has just gotten ins. but we can't use it

> until Ayg. 1. She thought her blood was low so I went with her to

> give blood. The Red Cross checked her blood to see if her count was

> high enough to give and it was. That was the only way I knew to do it

> because we didn't want anything to show pre-existing before Aug. She

> says she feels something pulling on her left side under her rib when

> she picks up stuff put always feels so pain there. She is tried when

> she arrives at work. She just cries because she wants to feel better

> but can't. Does anyone know what it feels like to how a enlarged

> spleen? Could this be myelogenous leukemia? I dir. a crisis

> pregnancy center and we have a ultrasound machine that we could

> checkout her spleen and maybe our volunteer doc. would read it.

> Please help guide me in helping her.

>

July 6, 2008