Friday, Oct 30, 2009

Friday. Chair 6. Sara put me on. It took forever to get my blood pressure. After literally about 12 tries, and my complaints about my hand turning red, Sara got someone else to help. Leann unplugged and plugged back in the band. It tried about 3 times and then got the blood pressure.

I asked Sara about her stethoscope. She said she didn't have it today. I said you didn't have it last time either (Friday). She said it has been a hard week. (I think that is why she hurt me so badly last Friday, her lack of her stethoscope).

3:43pm All set. Sara had put my lines practically in my mouth. It was frustrating for quite a while especially when I looked left, and later I had someone else move them and they were fine the rest of the time.

After working hard to get the ear phones I brought on my head with one hand, the plug in was gone on my tv! There was just a hole. I asked the nurse, Valery, about it and she recognized that it hasn't been there on that one. She was aware of that problem in the past apparently. I explained that the one guy who always cares about volume, is next to me, and she said he knows about that tv, implying that he would understand. Later in the day sure enough he complained, and the new nurse Kate asked me to turn it down.

The tv was also hard to maneuver. One time I tried to move it and hurt my finger on the sharp edges. The tv was also crooked so the entire time I had to watch it angled even though I asked for help, and the help tried, and was like, oh well.

Chris was there, but he looked horrible. He was much whiter than usual and his eyes were like blood shot or something. He said he had a really bad headache and it was his sinus' or something. He worked, but also sat with his head in his hands.

Leann was not herself either. She said she was sick. We joked how we could blame it on Chris. They didn't use mouth masks. They won't be working on Monday for vacation reasons I guess.

The best thing of the day is I got my favorite sitting buddy next to me!!! Melissa is fun, and nice and etc. We watched tv together, flipping and telling each other when the other show was on and laughing together for the first few hours. :)

About half way through I was hungry off and on. Then I got a bad headache that turned into a throbbing migrane. I told the nurses. At the end they turned down my goal. It didn't leave me until after I was home, ate, and took pain reliever. Not long after I'd also had water a few hours after being home, I felt better and the headache lifted.

I think it was Sara who held my sites. She needed help from Valery to pull the second needle. The bottom site took longer.