August 2010 - Poison Ivy

Jeff got a good case of poison ivy working at a customer's house on Canal Street in Yardley.  He complained about having to visit our family doctor because Dr. Peck is so infuriatingly thorough that, "He'll do an EKG, draw blood and keep looking until he finds something wrong.  Then four doctors later..."  Jeff decided not to wait out the poison ivy since his eyes were swollen nearly shut.  One week after that visit, Dr. Peck called him back to the office to discuss the results of his blood work.  His red blood cells were enlarged and too few, the white cells and platelets were also abnormal.  The blood work was repeated with similar results.  Since Jeff had not yet had that nice test for 50-year-olds, Dr. Peck sent him for a colonoscopy.