she'd done a map of my bloodwork going back to 1998 and showed it to me.
geesh, my platelets and wbc have always been on the high-ish side, it seems.
rarely was my wbc at normal levels and platelets have never been anything
but high since then.

she said the recent wbc spike was a small one and might be attributable to
demarginalization (causing wbc's to re-enter my bloodstream) because of the
steroids (though 6 or 7 days out from the injection is questionable, but not
doubtful) or even stress (yes, well, i haven't done my income taxes
yet.LOL).

my temp was 97.6, glands normal, skin normal, kidneys ok (after thumping
them), eyes ok, no anemia, but no indication of any infection (after i
answered her litany of questions) and i feel ok.  she said my labs indicated
to her that we had been dealing with inflammation of my hand, but not
infection.

said if my wbc went to 18 in next month's labs, then she'd be more
concerned, because that would be definitely out of bounds for my normally
high counts.  sooo, we will do more labs next month and see.

sounds like my rd called unnecessarily?

kate