I’m going to try AI transcription today to see how this works on this device. There are going to be contractions in this text because when I speak I am not sure if it will clean that up or not. If I do not say. It just keeps on craving a nice long sentence I love that said craving and not creating any mistakes I’m going to leave in here because it entertains me. I had a basement nurse come in this afternoon for my drainage she stayed for the whole time and while we’re talking I learned quite a bit. They are only permitted to remove four leaders of fluid and another thing that I had learned from her was that for the parts needle they were told that it does not matter if the patient is lying down or not. I guess I did not insert a lot of part needles so it is not that big of a deal but I told her for the future if you’re going to insert the port needle it is much easier if the patient is lying down as that is what they do in the chemo Center. I love how much mistakes are in this and hopefully when mine that I have created goes live it is not as mistake prone as this one. It seems that you need to really enunciate each word otherwise it will make mistakes such as using the word part instead of port. Last night I did not sleep very well as I was up a couple of times but today I did not feel too tired so what I am going to do for this evening is take a sleeping pill since we will be driving to Toronto tomorrow and I want to make sure that I am well rested. I prefer to drive as Mel does not like driving on the 400 series nor does she like driving in inclement weather. The goal tomorrow is to leave at 7:30 a.m. I will see whether Mel is up or not at that time and ready to go but that is the time that Xavier’s girlfriend will be dropped off at our house. The speed of the transcription is actually quite fast compared to how fast I can type on my phone so it is not a bad trade-off if I can get some of the things cleaned up but even if it is not cleaned up I’m okay with having them in it. I will need to make sure that when I speak there are no contractions. Today I managed to work the full day without any naps so I felt much better today compared to the rest of the week. Food wise I ate well except for when I had to get drained. I was only expecting to get approximately 2 l drained today but it was closer to three I had also told her that she could probably go and come back but she had said that normally she stayed for the whole time and then she would leave. It is always interesting because the Bayshore nurses never liked the supplies that are provided so while I was being drained she put in an order for supplies. When I had asked her about this she had told me that sometimes they do not have them in stock so they put in what they think is a good replacement, but it seems that a lot of the times they are actually not the appropriate replacement. Or there are times where there are certain protocols where they will provide certain equipment based upon their list and that list may not always be filled with the proper supplies.
This week Xavier had also informed us that he needed a new neck guard as the one he currently has the velcro is not really sticking. He had actually mentioned this a couple of weeks ago but we did not do much about it as I had told them that we could just pick that up in sudbury. The one that he has now has a lot of protection but it contains d30 material which you need to remove prior to washing. As Mel is the one that does the washing it is a bit of a pain as it is not easy to take in or out and takes a bit of effort. So what I decided to do was to get him a custom-made one from Finland that is really highly regarded. Mel is asking what I am doing so I should tell her that I’m trying the AI transcription for my blog. She was looking at me like I am crazy and I think that she is probably right I will probably not do this again because of all the mistakes that I can see within this. I do think that this is fun though even though Mel is giving me weird looks. She brought in humidifier that I have wanted but she put it in front of my heater which now actually blocks the heat and it’s probably not the best place for this box I will need to move it shortly. I need to shower tonight so Mel needs to come back and take me up so that I can shower. She is getting better at the tape job and she realized that she should not try to do it all in one big piece but it is better to use multiple smaller pieces as it gives more flexibility as my body moves. I am looking forward to tomorrow as we will eat some delicious food and we will take Xavier and his girlfriend to the Asian grocery store on our way home to pick up some treats and some fruit for the week. The price of the fruit at the Asian grocery store is normally quite a bit lower than the regular grocery store. There’s also the possibility that we will find some exotic fruit there as well but tomorrow we will not be going to one of the really high-end stores and just a local store that is close to Vaughn Mills. Normally I would like to see my sister but we do not have a lot of time where we will be in Toronto tomorrow and I do not know if she works or not or whether she has the time to come visit us. We will be mostly at Von Mills mall and Ikea and we may need to go to the IKEA in North York as well as the Ikea in Bonn. I love how when I say Vaughn it never spells it correctly and put on v o n or b o n n. Both of those are not even close to what I had said. Mel wants to go to bed early tonight so she is trying to finish all of her chores as quickly as possible and preload the van with everything that she can. As she is not a morning person she needs her beauty rest at least 19 hours I bet. The issue is that there are only 24 hours in a day so it is difficult to get enough rest. The best part about this is that when it said 19 you do not really know what number I had said and whether that was a mistake by the AI or whether I actually said 19. That is what makes this so much fun is that mistakes can be made and it is difficult to attribute it to either myself or to the transcription. I need to prep for shower now and it will probably take me 30 to 40 minutes to get everything ready. Hopefully tomorrow I am not too tired with everything that we are going to do. I will make sure that I have enough energy choose and gels in the event that they start to lose some energy. This evening I had one of my nurse friends come and remove the sutures from the tube. We will see how well her tape job holds up and whether it is waterproof or not. If it is not then when I see her next I will need to shake my head and disappointment. I will also need to make sure that I get it retape as some point.
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p.s. Tomorrow the entry may be late as we are going to drive Xavier’s girlfriend home and then back to our place and as she lives so far away it adds a bit of time to our journey. I hope everyone has a great weekend.