> An orthopedic surgeon at the Hospital for Sick Children has described,
> tongue in cheek, what he calls the Ulysses Syndrome, of which this is a
> perfect example. A test is done as a routine, and a result
> returns which is
> "abnormal".  There then begins a long voyage of searching for the
> cause. It goes on and on and on, and eventually nothing is found.

This happened to my son who was having some blood Depokote levels drawn.
The Depokote levels were within the appropriate range, but one of his WBC
counts was extremely high.  Everyone was surprised that he was not visibly
ill with WBC's that high, but he wasn't.  When I asked about trying to
figure out why his count was so high, the doctor said "if we hadn't drawn
his blood for the Depokote levels, we would never have known about the high
WBC count.  Everything else is fine and he is asymptomatic.  Leave it be."
We did have one more CBC done to be sure the level was dropping, which it
did and that was then of it.

Kathy

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Kathy Koch, BSEd, IBCLC
Great Mills, MD
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http://www.bftopics.org

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