Well day one is over - all 26.75 hours - chemo finished at 2:45am today!! Thanks to H & K for their prior post - most entertaining and informative.
I thought I'd write a little about the first day that has been...
Hospital starts are early (for me) - 5:15 for obs (pulse, BP, temp, wallet) 5:30 Weight
Between then and 7:45, I was able to doze and only get woken for drug intake on two occasions.
Strangely at 7:40 I did think to myself "I should be driving to work now....." None of that for a while.
Tony the doctor visits any time after 7:30, and we have chats about wetsuits, wetsuit glue (you can't get the old black glue easily anymore) oh and about me and the treatments.
After that the nurses plug me in, make me drink lots, test my wee, and do regular obs during the day. Within reason I can go for a stroll around the building, but I am attached to Baxter, who has a 5 wheel trolley which does not travel well over the raised bumps near crossings and some surfaces at all. After that it's day time tv with adverts for buy now funeral plans! and repeats, I have some DVD's, books and keeping you guys informed.
Here is Dan testing my wee - note he really does have to wear the Daffy duck suit!!
I reckon he's been watching too many Bear Grylls shows.
Alan
(Ok before the flood of comments - it's not really wee, because that would not be safety conscious - fun piccie though, thanks for the idea Dan)
I was going to say that Dan would be better off with a pint of Butcomb but then again as I recall it didn't do you a lot of good!
ReplyDeleteLol xx
Alan, you should have told Tony T to open also our WISEs 'to the world': we cannot post from the office and are really frustrated!
ReplyDeleteStill, we all loyally check on you - even if you now prefer Baxter's company. ;-)
Cheers
Social media - clearly not my forte, eventually managed to find my Google account and sort out how to write something!
ReplyDeleteHope Baxter and the pills are still batting on your side.
Wouldn't worry about the hair though, at your age it was a luxury anyway! Sounds like you've set the family an interesting challenge- to vacuum every bug out of the house, it must be hoovered within an ounce of its life :-) good luck Liz.
Take care and we'll catch up soon. Steve