God Thing

    My last  post, I talked about how I haven't been feeling well, and it has been three weeks of this.  I saw my oncologist this morning, and I can say I  was actually looking forward to seeing him.  The appointment got moved up from the 29th to this morning.  I explained everything that was going on.  I had blood work done.  My vein was accessed for drawing blood.  White blood count was 5.1, normal.  Platelets okay, and my red blood count was down to 3.6, making me anemic.  My doctor made a comment that maybe I am now suffering from migraines.  He said to drink a bit of caffeine when I get a headache.  I have a headache most of the time.  He did request a ct scan of my head/brain.

   I go see the scheduler, she said it could be up to three weeks for the CT scan.  I asked if by chance there was an opening today.  She called, and City Hospital happened to have one this afternoon.  That is so God.  I am so glad it was at City Hospital.  I was told to drink a lot of water, and that I could have lunch.  My appointment was for 2 pm.

       No issue accessing my vein this morning.  The nurse tried my arm, and boy did it hurt, she flushed the vein, and I complained of the pain.  She flushed it a second time,  then the vein blew.  That area of my arm hurt.  I was not willing to try another vein, so they called for a nurse and she accessed my port.  I had the scan, then came home.  I ended up taking the whole day off from school. 

   Getting an appointment today at City was a good thing.  City hospital is the only place that will access my port for scans that require contrast. 

  I will get the results next week, when I call my oncologist's office.  My doctors are not sure what is wrong.  I hope I can find out soon, so I can start to feel better.  Maybe then, I will start to sleep better.