My Butt Hurts
Squeals-a-lot!
YAY! I'm alive!!
I have been freaking out about my first Remi infusion, but it was today and it was a piece o' cake.
When I first got to the hospital and asked which way the silver elevators were, they told me I was in the wrong hospital. I insisted that I was at the right hospital and told them the department that my appointment was in, and they said to follow the signs for the GRAY elevators. 'Scuuuuse me! Someone told me silver, God darnit! Apparently it was the first day that the medical oncology infusion department had been in that location. Everything was remodled, no one knew where anything was, and people kept popping in for a tour. The receptionist got locked out of her window every time she left, and had to have someone let her back in. I saw that happen 3 times - hee hee. Even the chairs still had tags on them and no one knew how to make them recline. We finally figured it out - an obvious button, duh.
So... lots of paperwork, 2 Tylenol and 2 Benadryl, then a nice poke in the arm, then I sat for 2 1/2 hours while they checked my blood pressue periodically. If you ever need to pass the time while at your Remi infusion, sending text messages to a cute boy with scruffy beard and a visor does the trick!! The time FLEW by. I didn't realize that there was a loading period for Remi, I have to go back in 2 weeks, then 4 weeks, and then it will be every 8 weeks.
People have mentioned feeling the effects of Remi as early as during the first infusion. Nope - not me, I had to take a crap RIGHT in the middle of it. That's right ladies and gentlemen - you heard it here first. I felt a like a complete doofus dragging the IV on wheels to the can and back. Can't tell if I feel any better yet, will see tomorrow. I did have a bigger appetite for dinner, maybe that's a start...
I have been freaking out about my first Remi infusion, but it was today and it was a piece o' cake.
When I first got to the hospital and asked which way the silver elevators were, they told me I was in the wrong hospital. I insisted that I was at the right hospital and told them the department that my appointment was in, and they said to follow the signs for the GRAY elevators. 'Scuuuuse me! Someone told me silver, God darnit! Apparently it was the first day that the medical oncology infusion department had been in that location. Everything was remodled, no one knew where anything was, and people kept popping in for a tour. The receptionist got locked out of her window every time she left, and had to have someone let her back in. I saw that happen 3 times - hee hee. Even the chairs still had tags on them and no one knew how to make them recline. We finally figured it out - an obvious button, duh.
So... lots of paperwork, 2 Tylenol and 2 Benadryl, then a nice poke in the arm, then I sat for 2 1/2 hours while they checked my blood pressue periodically. If you ever need to pass the time while at your Remi infusion, sending text messages to a cute boy with scruffy beard and a visor does the trick!! The time FLEW by. I didn't realize that there was a loading period for Remi, I have to go back in 2 weeks, then 4 weeks, and then it will be every 8 weeks.
People have mentioned feeling the effects of Remi as early as during the first infusion. Nope - not me, I had to take a crap RIGHT in the middle of it. That's right ladies and gentlemen - you heard it here first. I felt a like a complete doofus dragging the IV on wheels to the can and back. Can't tell if I feel any better yet, will see tomorrow. I did have a bigger appetite for dinner, maybe that's a start...