Rhandom Schittshowe Cancer Journey: 2024-06-13: CT-Scan: Abdominal and Pelvic, Seroma Drain, Start Anti-Nausea
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| Type | Name | Description | Service Provider | Cost | Notes | ||
| General Info | Dexamethasone | Anti-Nausea | Self | $0.00 | |||
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| Other | CT-Scan: Abdominal and Pelvic | Cross Cancer Institute | $0.00 | 0 | ||||||
| Other | Start Anti-Nausea Drugs | Cross Cancer Institute | $0.00 | 0 | ||||||
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| I have shy veins. My left ones have always been worse than my right ones. Now that I’ve had lymph nodes removed from my right side I’m not supposed to have anything at all done on the right so the only place I can get needles is on the left. \n\n When I went for the bone scan three weeks ago it took them three jabs to get one of my veins for that IV. It was pretty awful. \n\n Today I went for a CT scan. Brent has been coming in with me for most of my medical things. When the nurse came to get me I asked if Brent could come with and she said no, she’s just giving me a poke. \n\n She was the first step, which is to get an IV put in. I told her I have shy veins. She poked at them to try and get one up, and then put a heating blanket on my arm for a few minutes. Came back and chose a vein on the inside of my elbow but couldn’t get it up to her satisfaction so she decided on one to the side of the inside of my elbow. \n\n She jabbed the needle in and it hurt like crazy. She kept pushing it in and it hurt more. Then she kept pushing it in more. It was so bad. Then she says ‘I’m sorry but I think your vein collapsed and I’m going to have to pull it out and try again, is that ok?’ Well, what can I say to that? Of course. So she pulled it out and I started crying. Oh myyyyyy. It wasn't really about the IV... I'm really dreading the chemo tomorrow, and that bubbled to the surface, especially considering I would have to go through the IV ordeal again first thing tomorrow.\n\n She asked me if I wanted Brent to come in. I said yes so she went to get him but she didn’t tell him why. He came in the room and stood across from me and then noticed I was crying and exclaimed, ‘Oh Jesus!’ He scurried over to me and hugged me from the side while she jabbed into yet another vein. \n\n She said if I wanted I could keep that IV until tomorrow because chemo uses the same size of IV. I accepted, which I think is the lesser of two evils. So now I have to spend the next 25 or 26 hours with an effing IV in my arm. \n\n I'll confirm tomorrow that my 11 Herceptin-only treatments (after chemo) can be done through a port, and if they can, I'll be asking tomorrow to get a port installed for the remaining chemo, and the 11 Herceptin infusions. After the CT Scan, Brent and I went home for breakfast (and I started taking the anti-nausea meds), then went for a quick walk at St. Albert Botanical Park, then went off to get my seroma drained.\n This was my biggest drain to date (since my drains came out) - ~70ml. My surgeon wants me to start using compression to prevent the large seroma from occurring. The nurses wrapped two tight tensure bandages around my chest, and found a \"breast binder\" to give me to use until my body starts absorbing the fluid. Ugh.
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