IV Day 2

Last night I phoned the folks and invited myself over for dinner. Thought a healthy meal would do me good. I've been favouring my left arm with the new PICC line and on top of that I am just so fatigued that I can't bring myself to making a scrumptious healthy meal. I've got the veggies, have some growing in the garden, have the know how but still I've pretty much been eating canned organic soups and things of the like.

This morning I awoke to find that the area around where the picc line goes into my arm had been bleeding. I knew I was going to have to call the community health centre and ask for their help to clean it up. But before that I seized the moment, by bagging my arm and taping it up so I could get a quick shower in. Then off to Shannon & Grahams for my lesson # 2 in IV.

I called the nurse at the health care ctr, and got a 1:30 appointment.

Since I had taken Shannon's idea of doing a Lyme blog, I was informed by her that I would be helping her set-up her Blog page before I went anywhere. I set up my IV stuff, started running it and tried to take note of all necessary steps as tomorrow I'm flying solo with the IV administration. We got that Blog set-up going and ever since then she has been trying to manipulate the BlogSpot layout options to suit her specific design criteria. Now I realize that I may have beat her to the punch, but she will blow my blog away with her soon to be published Blog extraordinaire.

After I left I went home to lay down and rest my sore back, though all I had time for was fixing up a quick lunch and making a soup so I could somehow ingest this gawd awful Cholestyramine powder. That worked out pretty well mixed in with some chicken noodle soup.

Then off to the health centre for a clean up on the picc line area and then off to the mall to pick up a birthday gift for Shannon to bring to their Birthday party dinner tonight. I got out of my car and realized I wasn't feeling so hot. Entered the mall, aimed for the down escalator and floated down into the strange space of people, colours and noise. OK, I'm going to pass out. Lot's of people here, good thing if anything happens. I tried walking but realized I needed to find a wall or maybe sit down. I sat down and watched the world pass me by (yet again). I sat there for a while and wondered... do I call my folks for help or do I make a run for the car and either go to my folks or make it home.

Well, my Brother had just arrived with his two boy today and I knew that going to my folks was not a great place to be considering my current state... I'll try the going home thing. Got home, stumbled up the stairs, kicked my shoes off and got into bed. I've been laying here for a couple hours and feel a bit better. I'm worried that I may have to call Shannon and Graham to tell them that I'm not in a good state, I'm not going to be able to join in on the fun (yet again). It's not that I can't go because I don't have a gift, I have a really nice card ready, it's just that I need to be able to get there and when I do I need to feel half decent.

I'm going to put the computer down, rest for another 30 minutes then get up and see how I make out with the whole feeling like I am on this planet thing.

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I got up and dressed ready to go to the birthday dinner. Sat on the edge of the bed with my fancy shoes and thinking am I going or not...? OK, I'll go to the car and see how I feel. Felt pretty OK, popped a chill pill and off I went. Glad I did, had a really nice night.

Now time to rest... ZZZzzzzzz