[Gocamino] blood tests and procrit for pilgrim in camino...pls need help....

[Renato Alvarado Vidal]

	Dear Martha, because of your condition, I should advise:
- Avoid the very demanding climb from S.Jean PP.
- Start from Roncesvalles, so if there is any anemia, it would not be  
symptomatic going down from the mountains and through the lower lands  
of La Rioja, up to Belorado, at the other side of the River Ebro's  
valley; in Belorado you are  two days away from Burgos, and this is a  
city with very good facilities. In Burgos you'll have no problem  
getting your blood test done.
- Send the Procrit to the Burgos' courier's office of your choice  
(A.Express, DHL, you name it) They can keep it refrigerated all the way.
- If you need the Procrit, use it; go to some Internet facility, buy  
another Procrit and send it to wait for you in Santiago de Compostela.
- If there is no anemia in Burgos, resend the Procrit to Santiago in  
the same refrigerated way.
- You can also replicate the process at another points of El Camino,  
in places like Leon or Astorga.

	Anyway, I think you will not have any anemia; august is hot and you  
will lost water a lot, your blood will concentrate and you'll have  
the best hematocrit in a long time :-)

	From a warm summer night in the faraway islands, Buen Camino!

	Machi. MD.

El 24/02/2007, a las 13:09, Hathor821 at aol.com escribió:

>> From a pilgrim....need your suggestions please
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> hola,
> i will be walking starting in Saint Jean Pied de Port in mid august.
> Here at home every 2 weeks i get a blood test (CBC), and if i am
> anemic  (hematocrit less than 37), my doctors office gives me a  
> shot of
> Procrit  (erythropoitin)Pr
> I can give myself the shots; the problem is that the  Procrit is a  
> very
> delicate molecule, so the little vials of liquid have to  be kept
> refrigerated.
> Any suggestions? How difficult would it be to get  a blood test along
> the way? and the Procrit? Procrit is a very expensive  drug. My
> insurance covers it here in the USA, but i don't know how i could   
> keep
> it cold if i carried it with me.
> Martha
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