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Aug. 26th, 2015 12:55 pmI almost blew it on my appointment this morning. The dratted thing was at 9:00, but I got up and did everything as if it were at 10:00 and only realized the problem right at 9:00 when I went to call the cab. I called the office and told them I would be late (I put the blame on the cab not yet having arrived because I was too embarrassed to admit how badly I'd screwed up). They told me they might reschedule my appointment and charge me if I was there by twenty after. I got there at twenty five after, and I was terrified I'd have to turn around and go home. Or sit and wait for three hours or something. But they took me right back.
It took about an hour and contained no real surprises. They told me no food after midnight but that small, very small, sips of water were okay up until 6:30. They gave me instructions about what meds I can and can't take the day of the surgery (they're all, except the multivitamin, apparently okay in the evening, after the surgery). I'm fine to take Wellbutrin and Ativan that morning, and I'm pretty pleased about that.
They gave me a number to call to talk to the folks at the surgery center to confirm my schedule. The nurse there gave me completely different instructions than the pre-op people did. She said that, up until 8:30, I can have as much water as I want and can even, if I choose, have black coffee. That's sufficiently different from what the pre-op folks said that I kind of want a third opinion. I don't want to be dehydrated and miserable, but I also don't want issues with anything trying to come back up during surgery. Surgery is apparently set for 11 a.m. They want me there at 8:00, and they'll be putting the wire in around 9:00. I have no idea how long that will take, but I think they'll take me straight back to get ready for surgery once it's in.
To get me there at 8:00, we'll probably need to get up at 6:00 or 6:30 so that Scott and I can both shower. Cordelia wants to sleep until 7:00, and I don't see a reason she shouldn't as long as she's mostly packed the night before. Scott will drop me off then take Cordelia to her friend's house and come back. He should be back in less than half an hour, so I don't foresee a problem. The surgery nurse told me it would be fine. I think, mainly, they want me there then so that they can do the pregnancy test that they're requiring in spite of my last period having started on Monday and my having an IUD. Though I'd have thought they'd want a pregnancy test before they inject me with radioactive stuff on Thursday, so I don't know.
All of this leads me to think that my surgery could be over fairly early. It shouldn't be particularly complicated as such things go. Maybe we'll be home by 6. That would be really nice especially if we have prescriptions to fill on the way home. They told me they have a pharmacy in the building, but I'd rather fill at Kroger if there are refills involved (I have no idea if there will be).
I have to go back up to the Cancer Center this afternoon. There's some paperwork Scott needs from them for his FMLA application. I was supposed to take that with me this morning and walk the block or so from the main hospital to the entrance to the Cancer Center and deliver the papers. Unfortunately, I was so freaked out over being late that I didn't even think about grabbing the folder.
According to today's appointment, tomorrow's stuff will be kind of time consuming. The 7 p.m. appointment will be shorter, only 30-45 minutes. They didn't offer an estimate on the 4 p.m. version except to say it would be longer. They did think that I would have time to go home between appointments, but the PA didn't wholeheartedly recommend it.
What I really want to do is to crawl back into bed and stay there, only emerging for appointments. I'm feeling pretty darned overwhelmed and confused.
To keep myself busy, I'm working on an annotated list of the blogs that Metanews follows regularly. I haven't tried to embed the actual links yet, and I don't know if I will, given the time required. I've written notes on about 2/3 of the listed blogs. I'm down to the ones that I can't tell apart without taking a look at them, the ones that sort of blur together because they don't post very much and/or because they have very generic names.
We will likely be putting up some sort of hiatus notice in the next couple of days. I wrote my version, but the other moderator is probably going to modify it. She needs a few weeks off herself due to an illness in the family. What happens after that will depend whether or not there's any actual interest in a very, very abbreviated newsletter that would almost all be stuff from DW.
I wish I had time and money to go get a massage. I think it might be good for me. But getting there would be a challenge, even if I could get an appointment on such short notice, and the cost is a pretty big issue.
It took about an hour and contained no real surprises. They told me no food after midnight but that small, very small, sips of water were okay up until 6:30. They gave me instructions about what meds I can and can't take the day of the surgery (they're all, except the multivitamin, apparently okay in the evening, after the surgery). I'm fine to take Wellbutrin and Ativan that morning, and I'm pretty pleased about that.
They gave me a number to call to talk to the folks at the surgery center to confirm my schedule. The nurse there gave me completely different instructions than the pre-op people did. She said that, up until 8:30, I can have as much water as I want and can even, if I choose, have black coffee. That's sufficiently different from what the pre-op folks said that I kind of want a third opinion. I don't want to be dehydrated and miserable, but I also don't want issues with anything trying to come back up during surgery. Surgery is apparently set for 11 a.m. They want me there at 8:00, and they'll be putting the wire in around 9:00. I have no idea how long that will take, but I think they'll take me straight back to get ready for surgery once it's in.
To get me there at 8:00, we'll probably need to get up at 6:00 or 6:30 so that Scott and I can both shower. Cordelia wants to sleep until 7:00, and I don't see a reason she shouldn't as long as she's mostly packed the night before. Scott will drop me off then take Cordelia to her friend's house and come back. He should be back in less than half an hour, so I don't foresee a problem. The surgery nurse told me it would be fine. I think, mainly, they want me there then so that they can do the pregnancy test that they're requiring in spite of my last period having started on Monday and my having an IUD. Though I'd have thought they'd want a pregnancy test before they inject me with radioactive stuff on Thursday, so I don't know.
All of this leads me to think that my surgery could be over fairly early. It shouldn't be particularly complicated as such things go. Maybe we'll be home by 6. That would be really nice especially if we have prescriptions to fill on the way home. They told me they have a pharmacy in the building, but I'd rather fill at Kroger if there are refills involved (I have no idea if there will be).
I have to go back up to the Cancer Center this afternoon. There's some paperwork Scott needs from them for his FMLA application. I was supposed to take that with me this morning and walk the block or so from the main hospital to the entrance to the Cancer Center and deliver the papers. Unfortunately, I was so freaked out over being late that I didn't even think about grabbing the folder.
According to today's appointment, tomorrow's stuff will be kind of time consuming. The 7 p.m. appointment will be shorter, only 30-45 minutes. They didn't offer an estimate on the 4 p.m. version except to say it would be longer. They did think that I would have time to go home between appointments, but the PA didn't wholeheartedly recommend it.
What I really want to do is to crawl back into bed and stay there, only emerging for appointments. I'm feeling pretty darned overwhelmed and confused.
To keep myself busy, I'm working on an annotated list of the blogs that Metanews follows regularly. I haven't tried to embed the actual links yet, and I don't know if I will, given the time required. I've written notes on about 2/3 of the listed blogs. I'm down to the ones that I can't tell apart without taking a look at them, the ones that sort of blur together because they don't post very much and/or because they have very generic names.
We will likely be putting up some sort of hiatus notice in the next couple of days. I wrote my version, but the other moderator is probably going to modify it. She needs a few weeks off herself due to an illness in the family. What happens after that will depend whether or not there's any actual interest in a very, very abbreviated newsletter that would almost all be stuff from DW.
I wish I had time and money to go get a massage. I think it might be good for me. But getting there would be a challenge, even if I could get an appointment on such short notice, and the cost is a pretty big issue.
