Yeah, I had eight of them taken and she explained what some of them were for, to check for rubella, my blood count cells, I think it was, and to check for the Down's syndrome and other things. I also had a problem with that though, because I only got my results last month back.
Because normally you're meant to see the midwife and she was meant to, every time she went to get my results she couldn't see anybody. So it's only, I - well, she said that “How come you haven't got your blood?” And it should be written in the back of my book and it wasn't, so she had to keep on chasing them to get it back.
So when she did get it back she did go through it with me. I had to, I asked her about it, and my red blood cells are low and my iron is low, so I'm taking iron tablets at the moment now, but that could have been done ages ago if they had - you know, because I took these blood results in July and we're in January now.
And is that also the case with the blood test for Down's syndrome risk, that came back late?
No because it was taken the same time I had these - but because there was, they sent it in the post I already got that anyway, so I knew about that, so that one wasn't a problem. It was just my blood results that I didn't get back.
And what about sickle cell, thalassaemia - have you had screening tests for?
That was also done the same time as well, but I haven't had any results back about that. I haven't had any results back on that neither.
Footnote: A separate DIPEx site on 'Screening for sickle cell and beta thalassaemia and other haemoglobin variants' is also available. |
