This week's medical ...

Terry had a doctor visit Tuesday -

CBC Collected:
08/19/2014 9:42 AM

Component	Standard Range	Your Value	Flag
WBC	3.6 - 11.3 10*3/uL	0.2	LL
RBC	3.72 - 5.85 10*6/uL	3.25	L
HGB	12.3 - 17.1 g/dL	9.5	L
HCT	36.9 - 49.9 %	28.9	L
Platelet Count	136 - 331 10*3/uL	4	LL
Absolute Neutrophils	1.2 - 8.0 10*3/uL	0.0	LL

The reds were good enough to let him go on his own till we checked again Friday, but the platelets really needed some help so he got one bag of platelets.   It was a simple and short day at the clinic.

We had a longer day in Wenatchee than that because we waited for Chase as he was doing some testing at the Wenatchee Valley College and then taking him to his car that was getting some work done. 


We went back to the clinic on (our regularly scheduled visit) Friday -

CBC Collected:

08/22/2014 8:55 AM

Component	Standard Range	Your Value	Flag
WBC	3.6 - 11.3 10*3/uL	0.2	LL
Results confirmed, test repeated
RBC	3.72 - 5.85 10*6/uL	2.80	L
HGB	12.3 - 17.1 g/dL	8.4	L
HCT	36.9 - 49.9 %	24.8	LL
Results confirmed, test repeated
Platelet Count	136 - 331 10*3/uL	3	LL
Results confirmed by redraw
Absolute Neutrophils	1.2 - 8.0 10*3/uL	0.0	LL

 

This day Terry needed 2 bags of reds and 1 bag of platelets.  We got started in pretty good time and got done around 4:30pm.  I was so happy to get home kind of early ..., or so I thought ... 

We had heard over the intercom something like "Attention all employees, Code silver, first floor, Allergy".   We hadn't heard code silver before so I was intrigued and thought I'd ask the nurse about it when she came in the next time.   We've heard code blue several times and even code green a couple times, but code silver must be special.   A few minutes later we heard something like this, "Attention all employees, Code silver, contain your area".

A few minutes later our pump started beeping so a nurse came in.  She didn't seem to know what was going on, but did know that code silver included guns.  So, there must have been someone with a gun in the clinic.  

We began noticing policemen pulling into the parking lot and the nurses came back to close our door because that is protocol with such codes.  The first policeman we saw got out of his car with his rifle in his hand ready to go.  Other police vehicles pulled in and policemen were coming and going and we were in lock down for an hour and a half.   We saw the police, state patrol, sheriff, and most surprisingly we saw what looked like forest rangers.  Everyone wanted in on the action, but the action was taking place somewhere around corners we couldn't see.  So we sat and waited and watched and wondered and visited and saw a little TV.  We were finally released at about 6:00pm. 


Here are a couple photos Anthony got.

The view from our suite -



On our way out of the parking lot.

 

 

Curiosity got the best of me today so I searched for info about what took place yesterday.  After learning the real reason for the lock down I found that all of our time was wasted, and we sure understand why no one really knew anything or at least no one admitted to it.  It also explains why the forest rangers or Dpt of fish and wildlife were there.

If you are curious you can check it out too.  I got my info from The Wenatchee World.

This is the photo they had on their page - and we saw this photo taken.  This was the sheriff I saw get out of his car with the gun coming out first. He was ready for action before his door even opened.  We saw the news reporter taking these photos, so it was fun to see and recognize this picture.  Our room would have been to the very left of this photo, (except they don't show that side of the building). 



The news article is titled BB gun triggers lockdown at medical center.  That sounds silly enough, but wait until you read the news.

I think the clinic needs to talk about how and when this employee enters the building.