Glam Tram and Impulses

 

I tried. I tried to be a ray of sunshine yesterday at treatment. My cool Wonder Woman socks, complete with cape made everyone smile. I am now in a crazy sock contest with the one aide, so I have to step up my game and really get crazy. If you see any, send me a link.

I should have known it was gonna be a long day. The waiting room was packed and they didn’t call me back for my 9 am bloodwork until 930, then I sat and waited another twenty minutes for the draw. My clinical exam was on time, but I didn’t go back to be hooked up until 11 and then treatment didn’t start until noon.

Why? There’s no chemo on Labor Day so they were double booked. It was crazy, but my mood stayed good until they told me my magnesium was low and they had to add an hour to my time to get a bag of magnesium. I didn’t want the treatment and it took my Physician’s assistant and navigator nurse to tag team me on why I did need it. Okay, okay, I got it. Suffice to say, I didn’t get home until almost five pm.

My nap was a good one. I didn’t get one there. My son was with me and I was enjoying his company, plus I was talking to so many people.

I was okay until that mag bag and then I just wanted to go home. I have to get this magnesium up. My doctor said no supplements so I have to do it all with food. Putting on a big pot of collards tomorrow.

Anyhow, I get my scans in a month and we’ll be able to see internally how the treatment is going. Externally the palpable lumps have shrunk and I had a routine CT scan to check for inflammation from the treatment. It looked good, showed the lymph nodes in my sternum had gone down and the effects of smoking are reversing.

Tomorrow my granddaughter is gonna glam me up, so be ready. She asked if she could, She’s 16 and said total transformation, so who knows what that means. There will be pictures.

Oh, yeah, one more thing. That Glam up request came after I asked her if she’d make a product video for me. If you were wondering why that picture is there, I had an impulse buy after seeing it on facebook. I shouldn’t have. Money is so tight, but I treated myself with easy payments. It arrives tomorrow, the Ramen Now. And when I uploaded a video review to their site, they send a link to get a case of ramen from around the world free.

I asked Violet to do the video and in exchange I get a glam. Whatever that means.