Love this post! Explains everything in terms normal people can understand. Everyone really should read this, then the next time you have any blood work done, look closely at the conclusions drawn from your numbers. Usually, if anything is off, below your numbers you'll see the opinions and explanations, which, unless you work as a health care professional, you will not understand most terms that they use. So, you will be looking at your results not knowing if it's deadly serious or something that just could be average for your body. It took me an entire day to look up what terms they used describing my blood work, when I was first diagnosed with my cancer. Now, I'm fairly familiar with the terms and don't need to look up each one.

I wish this post was written a few years ago, it would have saved me a lot of time and aggrevation! But, I will still be saving this post as a future reference; it's very precisely written, all in one place, and covers many different medical references. I would advise everyone to do the same, you never know what the future holds for you, and I like to know what my test results mean. Doctors tend to leave out quite a bit, from my personal experiences.

@bcrafts, I bet you never expected a response like this. It hit home and I really appreciate the time you took to gather all the information in one place, thank you. I hope people will read it, then learn from my story and experiences, then start becoming more aware of their own medical treatment. I was absolutely stunned when I first read mine and found out what all the terms meant; my doctors never mentioned 90% to me, until I took charge and started asking.