After my last tough treatment I was vigilant today looking for any potential problems. I got up early, took a shower, had breakfast, did dishes, carried in 80 pounds of stove pellets and loaded them in the stove. Then I fed the dog, took the garbage out and laid out all of needles and drugs for treatment. Then I took round 1 of my pre drugs, did my lung testing, my oxygenation testing , my blood sugar testing and then my blood pressure testing and took round 2 of my pre treatment drugs. And then it was time to wait for the pokenator to come and stick the needles in.
Before I knew it I was laying on my bed and she was placing the needles that the gamma globulin would flow through for the next few hours. She checked the hole on my hip which is still healing from a site reaction I had in August and treated it and bandaged up up as well. Once everything was placed and the drugs were dripping in I gave her a big hug and headed to bed. In an hour I was coughing so I used my rescue inhaler. By the time I hit the mid way point I was wheezing like a pug dog. So I did two back to back duo neb treatments, loaded the second syringe in the pump and then headed back to bed. Where I dozed off and on for the next couple of hours.
I woke up wheezing as treatment was winding up, so I went and did another back to back duo neb treatment, which helped a lot. Caro was soon there to pull the needles and then say you are swollen and red. It is time to draw circles and see if it gets bigger or smaller. So for the next 15 minutes she drew pictures and watched what was going on. With a smile she said she would be back in a while to seem what they were doing ... Me I just crawled back in bed.
But the swelling was down when she came to check, which was very good news. So now it is almost 12 hours past treatment and I am ready for bed. Grateful that it went better than it did last time, but still a little concerned about the wheezing ...I would like to get that solved for sure before the next treatment.
Well ... That gives me two days ....
Connie
