Tuesday, May 19, 2010

What a day from hell! Best part was waking up even though due to the steroids and having a lot on my mind I didn't sleep that much during the night.

As of this morning still nothing from the Radiation Oncologist. So off to the hospital for chemo. Let me ask a question - if you don't like people and want to be rude and surely - why work at a hospital??? Ok - I'm not talking about the many dedicated doctors ( a lot of them my friends) and nurses, but the support staff who think they run the place!!! Enough said!

Started out with me finding out that I was only to get Hercepton and not Taxol because my Oncologist was told I was having radiations and you can't have both which will cause brain damage (like I need any more problems). When I said I still wasn't scheduled for radiation my doctor ran right over to the chemo suite to see what was up. She felt bad that she was misinformed but it was too late to add the Taxol so I got 1/2 a treatment (although I was assured the Hercepton was what was more important). Her nurse (thanks Cara) called Radiation right away and the doc called to say they thought I was being informed (another result of a large institution), They still did not have the procedure worked out but I would get a call "soon". Well, it finally came a few hours later and I'm starting Radiation on Fridays and Tuesday at 6:30AM for 3 weeks!!!!!

Well then the fun began. Nurse "K" who was putting in my IV (and not very well) started fishing for a vein. I was very calm until she said "if I'm hurting you tell me to stop" - which I did. Well of course she took it personally and picked up and told the other nurse "she doesn't want me to put in her IV" (NO SHIT)! So another nurse came to the rescue and it a matter of seconds had it up and running.

An hour later (although we were there for 4 hours) the chemo was in and we were OUT OF THERE!

Sorry for all the complaining - just needed to get this off my chest. Thanks for listening.

Now to bed and a better and brighter day tomorrow.