So do u get those curveball days u weren't expecting?
It starts off by me waking at 10am! Amazing but not what I needed 2day - I said I'd go into work 4 a few hours & I'm a couple of hours behind pain relief - ouch!
Email from BCN (she'd tried 2 phone but I silence everything!) - my platelets r 2 low 4 chemo #2 of this latest regime 2morrow. All syked up. Was not expecting that in a million years. Have bn stable Mabel the last 3 weeks!
Bloods was a nightmare y'day & now we've got 2 repeat them nxt Wed! 4 x attempts by 2 x nurses who had 2 come 2 the house.
And missed a call from my GP - my silent phone again! Got hold of her later 4 a verbal catch up. She's a new doc 4 me with my original doc retiring last spring, so far she seems really switched on & agreeable with my ideas/wishes.
Bumped into a woman i know & started a blether as I stood at the bus stop & turns out she's had 1/2 bowel & a tumour removed last summer...does it ever end?
Made it 2 work & as usual got carried away - 4 hours later I depart having had a cake & a coke 4 lunch (haha stopped the steroid munching!!!)
So 2morrow will b a calmer day. Got my man 2 myself as he planned 2 b chauffeur & companion 4 chemo trip (something he's only done once b4 - yeah I'm independent & it's a waste of holidays). Lunch out methinks.
Nearly drugtime & bedtime - perhaps a few more episodes of Silent Witness on iplayer (my downfall!)
Night all
WB xx
Hi
What a horrible day you had! You were being used as a pin cushion! I have problems like that too, once in hospital a nurse had to go into my hand which for some reason didn't please the doctor.
Yesterday was my curve ball day. At our country practice, the GP who had looked after me for about 20 years retired a few months ago and there have been a few locums until very recently, when another female doctor became a partner. I'm so glad she has come to the fore because she's great, unlike the other female partner (we only have 2 doctors) who is so well known to be impersonal, hasn't said hello to me on several occasions when she has come into the treatment room.
Anyway, I started to have shoulder problems a few months ago, I let it run in case the pain left and I regained strength but it wasn't going to happen. I made an appointment, I had a few other issues to discuss.
The doctor on that day was a male locum. So to start with, I mentioned the shoulder, and without examining me, he said "ok, I'll send you to physio". End of.
A couple of months later, last week, I had an appointment with the nice new doctor and I explained about my arm being painful, and I didn't think it was a physio problem, but a medical one, so she gave me a form to go for x-ray, that was Wednesday of last week and I went to the local hospital as soon as I left the surgery. She asked me to book an appointment with the practice nurse, which was yesterday.
So I turned up yesterday and the less experienced nurse of the two was on. Alone. I went in, out of my chair into hers and she said I had a lot of blood to be taken, for many tests. I offered my left arm, forgetting to tell her that it was sore, she took my wrist and moved my arm to the right. A strange popping sound was heard first as my socket didn't seem to want to allow my arm to move, then it finally allowed my arm to move and there was the sound of gristle on bone and the nurse's face was a picture, something like when there's a noise that you can't stand.
So she pricked and prodded, squeezed and tried, but no blood, she couldn't find a vein. That happened with her a couple of years ago and she had to call the more experienced nurse in who wasn't amused and tut tutted and found the vein first time, she's excellent at that, she gets my vein fh
So yesterday after 3 attempts, she said I'd have to come back and see the other (more experienced) nurse on Monday because she was off for a few days. I was offering my arm for a fourth attempt, I didn't mind at all, but she refused, saying that she didn't want me to be a pin cushion. Fair enough. Others have stopped at 3 attempts.
Well, I have to go back on Monday, I have a telephone consultation today before 2pm. That's because the nurse did an ECG yesterday but I think the doctor said that I would be fitted with a 24hr tracing of my heart, as the ECG will only show what my heart is like at that moment in time. I'm pretty sure that's what the doctor was intending, a 24hr tracing that'll show what my heart is like under stress, and what comes to mind is picking up the dog poo in the back garden. Only 4 or 5 bending down and picking up, throwing it over the hedge into the field (our field). That is causing pains and a heavy feeling of pressure in a large area below my neck. I've had those pains before, just before I had a heart attack
I had quite a painful night last night, my shoulder was very painful all night long and the arthritis in my right elbow was particularly bad also.
Onwards and upwards as they say.
Wee Blonde, I hope you have a lovely day today, make the most of it 
Tvman xx
Hi Tvman
i was really sorry to read that you have had so much pain in your arm and felt for you when the nurse took your arm. I hope the pain is less today and you get the help you need to reduce it . Please look after your self and take care . Sending a 
