More adventures with a sharp pointy object
Yay! Finally, success!
The new lancets supplied by the nurse practitioner did the trick (get a much larger blood sample), and today I managed to get the stabbing finger with sharp pointy object and working the machine working together, and actually got a result!
After the first beep of the machine I’d got my eyes closed, because I was convinced that it was going to come up with one of those error codes again, but no, I actually managed to get a result! Only one attempt at stabbing finger, and machine worked perfectly, and my INR was 2.6.
Under normal circumstances that’d be just about perfect, but it’s a little on the high side considering I’m supposed to be having my op next Friday, and it’ll need to come down before then. I’d imagine they’ll check it again when I go for the pre-op assessment at the hospital tomorrow though, and I’ll find out what the plan is for sorting it out before the op. I’m hoping it’s not going to involve getting put on a heparin infusion, but as haematology are likely to get involved, I suspect it will. *sigh*
