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What a very long day!
Greg and I left home before the sun was up to get to the Tom Baker lab this morning. I had to have my blood typed and screened for the transfusion. Then we sat around waiting while they did all their typing and screening and such until one of the nurses suggested I might be more comfortable waiting in the unit because I could lay in the bed instead of sitting in a wheelchair in the waiting room. That was the best news I had heard yet. The lab tech who took my blood sample had to poke me 3 times in order to get enough of a sample so I was just getting over the trauma of that (I don't know why but lately when anyone approaches me with a needle I tend to fly off the handle, tears start and a feeling of panic comes over me) so I was happy to be laying down under a hot blanket in the treatment unit to wait for the blood.
The nurse who started my IV was awesome, one little poke and it was all set up. No trauma there or maybe the warm blankets helped relax me to the point where I didn't care... or maybe the morphine I took that morning finally kicked in. Anyway, it was the easiest one I've had in a long time. I knew they had scheduled me for 3 units but I had forgotten that each unit takes about 2 hours to deliver
so by the time we got out of the cancer centre it was after 5pm and we were both starving. We stopped for some Japanese food on the way home and now I'm here in my chair with my cozy blanket and Greg is upstairs trying to grab a nap.
While I was laying in bed all day he was running around doing paperwork. He picked up the papers for my Alberta Health Palliative Blue Cross coverage, he got Dr. Chu to finally complete the insurance forms for Manulife which mean I can continue to get paid on my short-term disability claim (the long-term claim doesn't start until April) and he got Dr. Chu to sign a medical report which will allow me to apply for the CPP Disability pension. Usually it takes months for Services Canada to adjusicate a CPP claim but because my case is classified as terminal they have a provision that will allow them to turn it around in 2 days. Neat, huh?
So that has been my day, in a nutshell. I was feeling lightheaded and extremely weak over the last couple of days but today I'm feeling strong and I have a good appetite so I may as well take advantage of the situation. I weighed myself yesterday and I'm down another 20 pounds or so. I weigh 212 pounds at the moment which is down from about 350 in the spring. If I keep losing like this I'll be in serious trouble before too long. Not to mention I won't have any clothes that fit. Mom found some of our old boxes that have some of my older clothes in it so maybe I'll go through them when I'm back in Vancouver in May. I'm not sure what to do with the clothes in my closet now. If anyone wants to practice their sewing skills there are some fairly nice skirts, blouses and pants that could be taken in. I can put a pile in a box and ship it out to you, no charge!
Greg and I left home before the sun was up to get to the Tom Baker lab this morning. I had to have my blood typed and screened for the transfusion. Then we sat around waiting while they did all their typing and screening and such until one of the nurses suggested I might be more comfortable waiting in the unit because I could lay in the bed instead of sitting in a wheelchair in the waiting room. That was the best news I had heard yet. The lab tech who took my blood sample had to poke me 3 times in order to get enough of a sample so I was just getting over the trauma of that (I don't know why but lately when anyone approaches me with a needle I tend to fly off the handle, tears start and a feeling of panic comes over me) so I was happy to be laying down under a hot blanket in the treatment unit to wait for the blood.
The nurse who started my IV was awesome, one little poke and it was all set up. No trauma there or maybe the warm blankets helped relax me to the point where I didn't care... or maybe the morphine I took that morning finally kicked in. Anyway, it was the easiest one I've had in a long time. I knew they had scheduled me for 3 units but I had forgotten that each unit takes about 2 hours to deliver
so by the time we got out of the cancer centre it was after 5pm and we were both starving. We stopped for some Japanese food on the way home and now I'm here in my chair with my cozy blanket and Greg is upstairs trying to grab a nap.
While I was laying in bed all day he was running around doing paperwork. He picked up the papers for my Alberta Health Palliative Blue Cross coverage, he got Dr. Chu to finally complete the insurance forms for Manulife which mean I can continue to get paid on my short-term disability claim (the long-term claim doesn't start until April) and he got Dr. Chu to sign a medical report which will allow me to apply for the CPP Disability pension. Usually it takes months for Services Canada to adjusicate a CPP claim but because my case is classified as terminal they have a provision that will allow them to turn it around in 2 days. Neat, huh?
So that has been my day, in a nutshell. I was feeling lightheaded and extremely weak over the last couple of days but today I'm feeling strong and I have a good appetite so I may as well take advantage of the situation. I weighed myself yesterday and I'm down another 20 pounds or so. I weigh 212 pounds at the moment which is down from about 350 in the spring. If I keep losing like this I'll be in serious trouble before too long. Not to mention I won't have any clothes that fit. Mom found some of our old boxes that have some of my older clothes in it so maybe I'll go through them when I'm back in Vancouver in May. I'm not sure what to do with the clothes in my closet now. If anyone wants to practice their sewing skills there are some fairly nice skirts, blouses and pants that could be taken in. I can put a pile in a box and ship it out to you, no charge!