Dude put me on Z-Pak for 5 days (antibiotic), Albuterol inhaler, and QVAR inhaler corticosteroid to reduce inflamation. Platelet counts are higher than normal, likely due to fighting off the infections, but seeing a hematologist some-time this week to get the official rundown - Currently taking baby asprin every morning to thin my blood out a bit in the meantime.
im sure your hematologist should be on top of this but blood thinners are very picky as to doses and such (dunno if youre on any but you mentioned thinning your blood). make sure your MD know ALL meds even OTC stuff you may not think of as drugs. im sure you know this but i have to say it anyway.
Getting old fucking sucks.
oh man. indeed it does.
Yep.... I am surely in agreement that we gotta try to keep bob as healthy as possible so that when he punches me in the face at the $1million party, it does not just feel like a mosquito bite.
The titanium plates likely help his strength.
By the way, the baby aspirins (once or twice a day - usually once a day) are supposed to have a blood thinning effect that is a fairly common preventative measure that is common practices, even getting into 40s and 50s... and is not as necessary to measure the ongoing levels of those aspirins as some of the other stronger blood thinning meds (such as coumadin or plavix or heparin... and I just looked it up there are a bunch of them.... )... though I suppose years and years of aspirin-taking could have some negative effects, even though sometimes difficult to measure whether impacting the liver or the blood vessel thinness or otherwise.
Aspirin is a bad thing in case of brain stroke. The thinning of the blood make worse the hemorrhage.
So there are pro's and con's.