After nearly two weeks of phone tag and crytic conversations, I'm finally moving forward with the results of my blood tests. To recap, my iron levels have always been wonky. I have it checked every year and every year it's "You're iron is low. Take supplements." or "You're iron is too high. Stop taking the supplements." This past year, it was on the high side again. I mentioned to the doctor how we've been doing this back and forth thing for a while now and how annoying it was getting. She told me to stop the supplements for just a few months this time and have my iron rechecked again. I did so earlier this year. This time, the iron came back fine, but there were some other readings that were strange, so I was told to have the CBC panel run again, which I did a few weeks ago. I started calling the doctor's office early last week to find out the results. When I finally was able to speak to the physician's assistant (I swear my doctor is never in the office), I had a cryptic conversation along these lines:

Her: Well, the good news is that you're not anemic.
Me: And the bad news?
Her: Well... I can't really say. I'll have the doctor call you.

Great. That was informative. Thanks. That was a week ago. Not one call from the doctor since. I've started calling every day this week in an attempt to get some answers from someone as to what is going on with me. I finally had to resort to being very curt with the receptionist, which I feel bad about because it's not her fault I'm getting the runaround, and got a call back from the PA within 10 minutes. It really bothers me that you have to be the squeaky wheel to get a response anymore. So much for trying to be nice.

Anyhoo, to sum up today's conversation with the PA, she still wasn't able to tell me anything specific. The doctor wants me to see a hemotologist (blood specialist) to determine the exact cause of my wonky results, so I'm getting a referral. It concerns me that the doctor feels it's serious enough to referral me to a specialist. However, I'm sure she's just doing it to be thorough and I'm not going to let myself get completely freaked out over it. In the meantime, I'll just sit here and google all of the horrible blood diseases I could be dying from. Sigh.