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Happy”est” Times

so OB is here.  He came in on 11/7 and he’s been “terrorizing” me ever since.  He AND G are taking jabs at me every moment that they can….talking about how slowly i climb the steps, how i get into the car – jokes cyah done (continuous trash talk)!  My mother comes in tomorrow and i know that it’ll be us against them for the entire time that she’s here.

It’s all good though – that’s how we do.  I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again – if i don’t laugh, i’ll cry and from where I sit, laughing is the better option!

Happy"est" Times

so OB is here.  He came in on 11/7 and he’s been “terrorizing” me ever since.  He AND G are taking jabs at me every moment that they can….talking about how slowly i climb the steps, how i get into the car – jokes cyah done (continuous trash talk)!  My mother comes in tomorrow and i know that it’ll be us against them for the entire time that she’s here.

It’s all good though – that’s how we do.  I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again – if i don’t laugh, i’ll cry and from where I sit, laughing is the better option!

Infusion Time “Fun”

Anyone want to take a wild guess as to how many times i was stuck last Friday?

anyhoo…so i went on Friday for my 6th (time flies when u’re having fun) infusion.   The head nurse (andrea) walks over and starts trying to get my vein to corporate (applying heat, tapping it, flicking it).  It looks like it’s going to be a good day but then she goes in and… has no luck….the vein is just not on this infusion business and has better things to do i s’pose.  She calls over someone else…she nails it!  woohoo!!  we are on a roll here.  This time because it’s my 6th one, they need 3 vials of blood for whatever blood work they have to do.  The chick says that she’ll wait to get blood after i’ve gotten the medication. (skip ahead 2 hrs)

Andrea walks over and says, “lets get some blood and send u on ur way.”  She takes the syringe and whatever other apparatus they use and inserts it into the IV, pulls back on the plunger and – NOTHING!!  She thinks that the vein that we’re in is kinda tiny, so she’ll have to go in somewhere else. (skip ahead 45 mins)

By this time, both my wrists and forearms are sore and 2 other nurses have seen me.  Remember i said that they needed 3 vials of blood?  they got 3/4 vial!!!!  My blood just didn’t feel like flowing.  At the end of it all, Andrea said that they will just take it and do whatever testing they could with what they had.  I was so happy to hear her say that because i really wasn’t in the mood to try yet another time.

so…at the end of it all, how many times did i actually get stuck?  7!!  twice for the medication and 5x for the 3/4 vial of blood – sooooo NOT what I signed up for!

Infusion Time "Fun"

Anyone want to take a wild guess as to how many times i was stuck last Friday?

anyhoo…so i went on Friday for my 6th (time flies when u’re having fun) infusion.   The head nurse (andrea) walks over and starts trying to get my vein to corporate (applying heat, tapping it, flicking it).  It looks like it’s going to be a good day but then she goes in and… has no luck….the vein is just not on this infusion business and has better things to do i s’pose.  She calls over someone else…she nails it!  woohoo!!  we are on a roll here.  This time because it’s my 6th one, they need 3 vials of blood for whatever blood work they have to do.  The chick says that she’ll wait to get blood after i’ve gotten the medication. (skip ahead 2 hrs)

Andrea walks over and says, “lets get some blood and send u on ur way.”  She takes the syringe and whatever other apparatus they use and inserts it into the IV, pulls back on the plunger and – NOTHING!!  She thinks that the vein that we’re in is kinda tiny, so she’ll have to go in somewhere else. (skip ahead 45 mins)

By this time, both my wrists and forearms are sore and 2 other nurses have seen me.  Remember i said that they needed 3 vials of blood?  they got 3/4 vial!!!!  My blood just didn’t feel like flowing.  At the end of it all, Andrea said that they will just take it and do whatever testing they could with what they had.  I was so happy to hear her say that because i really wasn’t in the mood to try yet another time.

so…at the end of it all, how many times did i actually get stuck?  7!!  twice for the medication and 5x for the 3/4 vial of blood – sooooo NOT what I signed up for!

Happy Times!

Had dinner with my fellow MSers last nite.  we had a really great time and it was good catching up with them – i haven’t seen then since the end of the seminar.  We exchanged war stories of the past few months, laughed, they commented on my walking and just had an overall good time.  I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, my friends and family are the best at supporting me and making adjustments etc, based on my needs but there is nothing like talking to and swapping stories with other MS “sufferers”.

Anyhoo…tomorrow is my 1st Tysabri infusion; I have to admit that I am extremely excited.  I am hopeful and staying very positive about what this treatment can do for me. 

  • The risk of the brain infection is in the back of my mind, but way way back; I’m not going to lose sleep over it.

I’m already enjoying NOT sticking myself everyday…in fact i was supposed to be off of it for 2 weeks prior to the infusion, but i stopped it about 3/4 weeks ago :-).  I go in at 1:00 tomorrow afternoon and will be there for 3 hrs (pre-infusion work/infusion/monitoring) – honestly, i can think of a few better things to do for 3 hrs on a Friday afternoon – but hey!  I chose a Friday afternoon so that I have the weekend to recuperate if necessary.

Wish me luck (from across the miles, oceans, continents etc)!!!

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