7/7/22

It’s Thursday now. I’m still in the hospital. I’m still on 4 L of oxygen and I’m still wearing a heart monitor. At least I’ve spaced out my pain medicine times, because the pain is letting up some. I’m talking into my iPad to make this post, but I have my glasses now and can read what I have written. Unfortunately that was not the case for the last post. I don’t know when I’m getting out, and my oncologist is on vacation this week. I know the doctor on call, though, and she is from the same office, so that’s nice. I have more blood clots in my right leg, so I will find out in a few hours what they’re going to do about them. I know, because I had an ultrasound of my legs today. I also had an echocardiogram heart. When I got here, I had a CAT scan of my lungs, but they didn’t tell me much. I was told that I had one embolism in the left lung and two in the right. However, I heard the nurses talking in the hallway at shift change, and my nurse told the new nurse that I had a whole passle of them.  My substitute doctor is not nearly as forthcoming as my regular oncologist. I asked her how many embolism‘s I had, and she blew me off and said it didn’t matter. Only thing that matters, is that I had at least one. I get a shot in my stomach twice a day. It’s called Lovenox and it’s supposed to help dissolve the blood clot. I had blood clots before. Two of them, actually. It was many years ago, though, and I don’t remember all the details of my hospital stay. I know I was in the hospital for around a week back then. I know when I get out I will need to be put back on blood thinners and I hated them last time. She took me off Tamoxefen, which is one of my cancer drugs. She left me on Verzenio, tho. That’s my chemo pill. I have developed a bit of a cough and they are giving me some cough medicine for that. I am on tramadol and the Dilaudid for pain. At this dosage, Dilaudid makes me itch, so I am injected with a Benadryl chaser. It helps, but I am still itching. My oxygen SAT went down to 82, so that’s why they have this thing stuck in my nose. They did arterial blood gases yesterday, so I got stuck for that, too. When David came today, he helped me get cleaned up, so I felt much better after that. However, I just looked in the mirror a little while ago. This can’t be good. I look like a witch. I could most certainly scare small children. It’s 3:30 in the morning now, and I can’t sleep. That’s all I’ve been doing. Sleeping. The doctor told me not to walk around, but to stay in bed. I only get up to use the bathroom. I was told today I have the largest room on this entire floor. I have a sofa sleeper, loveseat, recliner, couple chairs, and still tons of room. There are windows across one entire wall and I have a beautiful view. I could have a party in here. So, if anyone has a piña colada, come on over. My pain medicine has worn off, and my head is much clearer now, so I hope this post makes more sense than the last one. I always have a choice. I can have a clear head, but with pain. Or, my head is in the fog, I’m very tired, but less pain.  It has taken me an hour to write this post, so I believe I’ll try and go back to sleep now.