The long chemo started today and it basically ended up with me being REALLY COLD because all I did all morning was eat ice and popsicles for like 3 hours to try and avoid mouth sores. I hope I will actually avoid them because then I'll be able to eat things next week/the week after (I don't really remember when the worst of it was last time).
I'm messing up my sleep schedule something fierce being here. I take naps during the day and then once it comes to being bedtime, I can't actually get to sleep, which makes me stay up super late and then I'm tired and need to take naps and everything starts all over.
One of the other rooms on the floor has a giant sign on the door telling doctors/residents to take off their lab coats before entering - apparently the kid inside is afraid of doctors but only when they have on their white coat and they're easily identifiable as doctors. I'm actually kind of surprised that this is the first time I've seen something like that.
I got sick again tonight and I kind of wonder if I'm going to just start getting worse and worse for the next few weeks before I get better. Hopefully it's just that I've been trying to eat like a normal person and not like someone getting chemo and my stomach is going "crepes from the tea room, really? That's so interesting and complicated! Where are my cheerios??"
We do the coat thing with cats sometimes.
ReplyDeleteOne of the things you have to do to manage cats with chronic kidney disease is regularly take their blood pressure... and a lot of cats seeing that white coat will falsely elevate their BP. And putting them on BP lowering meds when they don't actually have high BP can be deadly.