My Day At The Zoo…Well, ER.

Oooh, what a fun day.  My daughter had a sleep over at the YMCA last night, and needed me to pick her up this morning.  I was glad to have her back, and also very anxious to get back home and get back to sleep as I have been up since 4 AM this morning.  Ugh.

Well, I’ve mentioned the neuropathy thing in the past.  Quite a few times I know.  I think I have also mentioned that has caused me to fall the past couple weeks.  It comes out of nowhere, and my legs just turn to jello.  They just melt beneath me.  Well, I guess my neuropathy decided to kick in again this morning.  Out of nowhere, was doing JUST DANDY, when my legs gave, then I fell off the curb, then down to the asphalt.  Bad thing is, the parking lot was not nice and clean, all pitted with rocks and gravel everywhere.  Was quite bad.  I couldn’t even get up for a couple minutes.  It hurt so badly.  I just layed there on the ground unable to get up.  The “adult lady” at the Y eventually helped me up and I cried hysterically all the way home. 

I was thinking that my foot and hand were broken, and my knee was all torn up and bleeding pretty badly.  I made it home and got my mom, called the oncologist on call to let them know what was going on, and asked if there was anything specific I needed to let the ER doc know, especially because I’m on so many restrictions with my chemo meds.

I made it to the ER.  I called ahead and they met me at the car with a wheelchair.  Couldn’t walk on my foot, still can’t.  They got me in for xray pretty quickly.  Did my left foot and my left hand.  They gave me some percocet.  I told him I had my oxycodone with me, but he said not to worry.  He didn’t want me to have to use my “personal stash”.  Aww, that was nice.

The Xrays were negative.  Still don’t understand though, why I can’t walk on my foot or apply any pressure on my hand.  He did clean up my knee, it’s still bleeding, but there was no way to stitch it up.  He cleaned it up, omg, it hurt soooo badly.  He used one of those brush/sponge things they use to scrub up for surgery.  I remember when I was doing my nursing clinicals, I LOVED using those, they felt so good scrubbing up, and the bristles felt SO good.  YEAH, BUT NOT WHEN YOU’RE SCRUBBING THE HELL OUT OF AN OPEN FREAKING WOUND.  UGH!  Yeah, it’s REALLY sore right now.  If you enlarge the picture, you can see the bristles, yes, he was scrubbing the crap out of my knee with the bristles too.  AND NOT LIGHTLY!  This is what my knee looks like.  It’s not pretty, I promise.  It still hurts like crap.  I just don’t understand why it’s my LEFT foot and my LEFT hand, but I managed to get my RIGHT knee.  Make some sense out of that one for me.  lol.  Leave it to me to be complicated, right?

So, a quick update from my appointment with Dr. Clark yesterday.  He confirmed that this will most likely be my last cycle of chemo.  After this I will have another Pulmonary Function Test and a heart test, probably an echocardiogram, and if they check out then I will go see Dr. Bush, the radiation oncologist (he is head of the department) and I will get going for radiation.  Yeeeeeehaw!

And then I got a little ticked at him.  He happened to mention that he had given me more prednisone the whole time than I needed.  WHAT?!  OMG.  I started to get so angry.  But then he redeemed himself.  He told me that I didn’t need to take it this cycle.  Yeeeeeehaw!  So.  That means I am DONE with the prednisone.  I was in SUCH a good mood yesterday, as I am sure you can imagine!

Anyhow.  So that about wraps up all the news for now.  I need to lay down, my body is hurting badly.  I will keep in touch. 

Thank you for reading.