Bethany
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Yeah.
It was giving me the ambulance emoji and saying, go to the ER right now.
And what was it?
As it turned out, I ended up uploading some blood work
And it notified me that I had dangerously low platelet count.
My platelets were at 25,000.
Normal people have between 150 and 450,000.
So that was dangerously low.
Yeah I had been having some weird symptoms all week so I got blood work on a Friday and you know sometimes they just email it to you over the weekend so I got it but my doctor didn't call me and when chat was asking me about whether I should get blood work done I was like oh I got some results let me upload it and then things just got really serious really fast.
What kind of symptoms were you having?
I was having bruising.
I was having digestive distress.
I had these red spots all over my legs and my gums started bleeding too.
And then we saw the platelets.
I started to get a lot of very, very serious, urgent, go to the ER right now because it says you might be at risk for spontaneous bleeding because your platelet count is so low.
Yeah, it actually told me exactly what to say when I got there.
I was panicking.
So I was like, I'm getting in a taxi.
I live in New York City.
It was coaching me through what I was going to say.