Fasting Bloodwork

Ugh, I hate fasting. I woke up starving today. I normally get up around 5-5:30am. Luckily I didn’t have to wait too long for the bloodwork. The appointment was at 8am. They paged me in around 8:30am. Quick and easy. Then off to pick up some breakfast. We treated ourselves today to some Chicken biscuits, you know the place with the minis. The vanilla iced coffee was blah. Not impressed. I’d rather have my home cup of coffee and hazelnut cream. Bleh. We also picked up more rx’s from the pharmacy. Pre chemo antibiotics and something else. I’m not quite sure what it is, I’ll have to look soon. Then I got an appointment moved to Saturday. No more far drives hopefully. I’ll take it as easy as I can.

The morning also consisted of some light work, order processing and ordering from our central warehouse. I then prepared my lunch around 1 as I had to take my steroid med. I was still not too hungry from having that breakfast sandwich and hashbrown coins. I had a meal my wife prepped for me. I heated it up myself, carried it to the table myself, got some condiments myself and washed my dish myself. All of this I could not do earlier in this process. It made me feel good to do these things for myself. Self sufficiency is something a lot of people over look when you take it for granted. I don’t want to burden others with my stuff so being somewhat self sufficient really matters to me. It may not sound like much to a normal human but this is huge to me.

Occupational Therapy finally came today. They ghosted me last week, no call no show for the appointed date and time. Annoying. She then said next week would be her last visit which is fine by me, but my insurance covered 4 visits. She came 3x. I don’t care. I’m getting around better now anyway. She showed me a few more exercises. I told her how the PT guy never cleaned his stethoscope and I have some kind of irritation on the crook of the elbow from taking my blood pressure. Only on those two spots one on each of my arms. I’m a clean person, I never get a rash or skin irritation like this. This isn’t normal for me. She said it could be a side effect from medication, but I’m not buying that. It’s centrally located on the crook of the inside of the elbow. Don’t come at me with that nonsense. I bet it’s from a dirty stethoscope. Gross. I will continue to ask them to either clean it prior to my skin contact or I will have them use my own electric bp cuff. Probably the latter.

Try to remember you never know what someone else is going through in their life. Be kind to others. Know what you’re saying and how you say it. It means a lot to those going through their hardest time. I try to keep this mantra in life.

Tomorrow should be fairly easy, no appointments scheduled. I think my next Physical Therapy is set for Thursday. Light work in the am and that should be it for Wednesday. I’m charging some external batteries for extra phone use days. I have battery anxiety when my iPhone gets below 48% Idk why but that number makes me nervous.

Have a good night friends and family. Just a little slice of my day.
~Bruce