Blog of Random Thoughts
Sometimes the healthcare system can move incredibly fast. This morning I received a phone call at 7:30am asking if I could come in to get my ascites drained. They asked how quickly I could come in and I replied 13 minutes. It did not take me 13 minutes as I did not remember to factor…
I had quite a few appointments today and they went much longer than I had anticipated. The coordinator dropped by this morning and we established what I needed for home care. I asked for a wheelchair and we will be getting one this week for a 30 day trial to see how much I like…
My abdomen feels really tight and it has not been super comfortable right now. Yesterday Mel and myself went to Costco in the afternoon and we went through the store fairly quickly and that is about the limits of what I can manage. We went through and got all of the groceries required and managed…
Mel read my entry a couple of days ago because someone asked about it and she skimmed it before sharing. She criticized it and said I needed to close loops in my story. She was talking about when I said cancer is expensive and did not elaborate on it. One of the pills that I…
I keep on getting up at 3am, but this morning I did not feel great to eat so I just had one of my bedside snacks. It seems like clock work that I wake up at that time and most of the time I want to eat. Right now I feel over bloated so I…
Cancer is quite expensive. Today I will have a nurse come and she is going to give me an injection. The purpose of the injection is to help out with my white blood cells so that they do not drop too much. If my lab work comes back with concerns then it delays my treatments…
Today I get to go in and get the bottle disconnected. I am looking forward to it. I am not sure if it is because I just got the port put in last week, but it is not comfortable at all. It is not painful, but I can feel it constantly and when there is…
Yesterday I said that I think that things were going fine. At the end of the treatment I had to go pee and realized that my bladder control was starting to slip a bit as I dribbled some pee down my leg as I was getting up. This was a sign of things to come…
I got off to a bit of a rough start today. We started the day with me forgetting my phone at home and Mel having to go back home to go get it. Luckily we live close by and she was able to go get it for me. Unfortunately Mel did not know where to…
We met with the oncologist today to set things up for treatment starting tomorrow. During our brief visit I received several phone calls. One from my son asking me if I was going to pick him up for his athletic therapy session and several from healthcare people. Xavier normally has his sessions on Monday but…