Drama Queen

First we got late to the 5th cycle session. Because we forgot to bring the compulsory RAT test before hand and then we went looking for a pastry shop that has sausage rolls. 

I have 2 drips and one is 4 hours and the other one is 1 hour, then there are 3 saline flushes - beginning, in between and finish, there is also the wait for the doctor and time for prep. So I am always the last to leave. They do serve a nice light lunch of sandwiches, fruit and juice but I am hungry by about 3pm because I only take the sandwich and juice. 

I get my husband to get me some lunch but because I only have one hand free ( the canola goes in the big veins in and around the wrist) I need something I can eat with one hand. So anything with spoon and folk is out, only something that is not dripping every where and covered up. So sausage roll is the perfect snack. But they are so hard to find in pastry shops around the hospital by noon. Looks like they are all sold out by breakfast. So I found this spot on the way that had it and we went looking for it. 

Then we went back home to get the RAT tests. If you don't take your own RAT tests from home they get you to do one there before you are taken in to the chemo room and also the nurses have to dress up in full PPE for you to do it. So it will be waste of their effort and time and we will be late any way. So we went home to get it even if getting late, as that was the best option.

Then there was the case of finding a suitable vein. My arms are all pricked so much that they have to look for a place to prick every time. Also on the veins also disappear the moment they try to prick so always I have about 2 pricks before they can find a proper vein. This time it was no different.

When they finally did fine a vein and get it going, it was already past noon. And then when they put it in to full force after 15mins, the vein didn't like it and it and the canula got dislocated and I got a bump in the arm. So they had to stop the drip and again relocate it to the other arm. The head of the unit had to come do that and it was past 3pm when I finally started back on. 

This then meant that the nurses in the unit had to stay back late AFTER their shift ended because my drip hadn't ended. I was feeling very bad for them. Of course they kept saying that it was ok and it was their job to do and that they can go early from the next shift. We started cleaning up the chair etc and they wouldn't even let us do that.

I just feel very grateful for all the nursing staff for the services they provide and how supportive they are. I told them that I understand how it is to go over shift because that happens to me sometime at work but I do a desk job so it is fine, but you have to deal with people and be nice to them :) She said I would be so bored in a desk job. The passion and commitment of of this staff continue to amaze me every time.

Next one is my last session !!