Don't you just hate it when your best laid plans just fly out of the window?
Well that's what happened yesterday
Rebecca had stayed over so I could attend her latest PET TAC scan, she had been very brave at first insisting she could go on her own, but sometimes Mum's know best and beg to differ!
I am soooo glad I went
She was given a very large bottle of jollop and a cup and instructed to drink a cup full every 5 minutes, unfortunately it had been flavoured with orange, to which, like me, she is allergic to. So that went back and a fairly bland water type substance was substituted.
She finished the bottle which took about 40 minutes and was called in. I waited and waited, the room emptied and still I waited. When she finally came out her right arm was sporting a huge bandage at the elbow, plus another taped pad on her left hand.
She did grin and ask how many kittens I had had whilst waiting
Apparently during the procedure of inserting the contrast into the vein something went wrong and it was panic stations as she was on the scan bed in terrible pain, they then had to insert a second dose into her left hand and the scan was completed.
The worst of it was they just wrapped a cool pack around with bandage and said go home and keep it cool!
Now with me, something like that doesn't sit very well, so after breaking her fast we headed off the the ER
It was heaving!
3 hours later we were seen, by this time the arm was so swollen and it had spread, a full examination then the consultant disappearing off to get the low down from Radiology only to tell us nothing could be done! ice packs, a review if the symptoms changed - oh and it would spread right up to the shoulder and take between 1-2 Weeks to go down!!! what!!!!! As if the poor girl hasn't been through enough
That was it, a blunder? perhaps, maybe who knows! so after 6 hours
We had to coordinate Chris and Antoni to meet up so they could rescue us and also drive Rebecca's car home
Our plans of a nice girlie lunch by the sea, a catch up on some projects we are interested in and a home colouring session to redo Rebecca's purple highlights all disappeared, whoosh gone, we were just two very tired, hungry, tee'd off girls with a da ja vu feeling
We had both done our best at keeping each other cheerful and were so glad of each other's company
but not a good day!
At least today, so far! has been better, although the swelling has reached her shoulder and wrist, no other symptoms have appeared, so onwards and upwards with the frozen peas, I did joke and told her there are better ways of getting out of the washing up!
take care and enjoy your weekend
xcx
Oh you poor things, you for worrying and Rebecca for having to go through this. I hope that her arm goes down soon and that she is OK. I hope that the results of the scan were OK too. xx
ReplyDeleteOh dear my reply just disappeared, keeps doing this lately....anyway..thanks Amy, Rebecca says the swelling has receeded a little bit so she can bend her arm a tiny bit, so that's progress. We won't get the results until the end of August, it's a long wait, this is the bit we hate waiting for the all clear xcx
ReplyDeleteOh Chrissie I am so sorry to hear this - I do hope Rebecca's arm is feeling much better and that you will get good news in August xx
ReplyDeleteIt seems to go with the territory, you read and go through this with others it seems it is just par for the course so we shall be so very positive, put this blip behind us and move on. But thank you, have to say that where as before I hid away, you lovely people have made it easier to share, even if it is a rant!!!! lol xcx
DeleteOh Chrissie that doesn't sound good at all... I do hope the swelling is down and I agree.. its not as though she hasn't been through enough.... I hope she feels a lot better today..... and you too!!!
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Ermmmm a bit pants, however it shall not get us, just a blip! we have been through worse, and thank you it feels weird sharing, but with lovely peeps like yourself what is the saying 'we shall over come' springs to mind, stay strong and tomorrow is another day, xcx
DeleteOh how terrible for Rebecca, and equally terrible for you to be left sitting there so long wondering what was going on. I hope her arm recovers much quicker than predicted and of course we will be waiting along with you for the results, in the mean time thinking very positively. Oh and..... Mums often do know best !
ReplyDeleteluckily Rebecca had left me her tablet as we were reading a book together, so i carried on otherwise I think I would have been counting the minutes, and thank you, she says it is a little easier xcx
DeleteOh, how I can empathise . The last time I had my check up scan,the nurse asked me if it was ok if a student "practised" getting the line in..... I just said " No".... I know they have to learn, but sorry, I've had too much done to me to let anyone learn the job on my veins...which are pretty shot anyway. I hope Rebecca is ok now.... not good at all. Good to regard it as a blip..... these things happen ! Take care... hope all continues to go well....minus blips.
ReplyDeleteI think the anticipation is bad enough, poor love just said 'oh Mum what else' and she has another scan booked for Tuesday, so we are querying if this is still feasible, just have to be in their hands?! Don't blame you saying no, they have rather a job finding a good vein to begin with.xcx
DeleteGoodness, I've never heard of anything like this at a scan, it just goes to show, you never know. I hope Rebecca's not in too much discomfort, though it doesn't sound as though you know why this has happened, I do think they should enlighten you. Do make some new plans for your girly day, it sounds like you both deserve it after all the pain and worry.
ReplyDeleteWe hope to ask more questions when we see the consultant, at the moment it could just be a blunder or just that the vein collapsed. We will make new plans as we both look forward to our girly times xcx
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