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Last Treatment of the Week

For a Friday, the weekend will be here once I leave the clinic. Today, I have one last treatment of the week. My ride got here and dropped me off at the dialysis clinic by 11:15 AM and right now, we have patients waiting for their turn to the machines for Friday morning. Yep, I am waiting for my turn on the dialysis machine this morning. For Christmas, I will be coming to dialysis on December 24^th that weekend, and resume my dialysis treatment on Wednesday that week. I personally think and believe the Dialysis center does not have to move everyone around and disrupting the patients’ schedule. It makes no sense. When my schedule is disrupted, I get anxious and upset really easy. I understand that the doctors want us to dialyze three times a week to get the benefit of a very good cleaning, though. I surely do not want to gain any fluid weight during the week and days off dialysis days, either, to be very honest. It just disrupts my schedule during the week changing my schedule at the clinic.

Dialysis Update

Well, I got on between 11:45 AM and 11:50 AM today. Dialysis is going smoothly, and it has had its ups and downs with the machine today, but I am getting through treatment recently with under 30 minutes left before I weigh out for the weekend. Thank goodness for the weekend final getting here, but I have to pay my cable and phone bill when I get home, and I wish she, JP will wait until Monday for me to pay my bills. Already feeling anxious, again. I just list my pillow on the darn floor. The tech J (male) just picked it up and put it back behind my head. I have 21 minutes left to dialyze before my blood is returned and get taken off the machine. The end of my treatment for the week is coming to an end. All three treatments done.

November has taken its last bow and left the stage to its right while December had come on the stage at its left. Let’s welcome December, everyone, ok? Winter is on its way now that the Christmas holiday season. Yep, Christmas is coming in twenty-four days from now.

Last Treatment of the Week

For a Friday, the weekend will be here once I leave the clinic. Today, I have one last treatment of the week. My ride got here and dropped me off at the dialysis clinic by 11:15 AM and right now, we have patients waiting for their turn to the machines for Friday morning. Yep, I am waiting for my turn on the dialysis machine this morning. For Christmas, I will be coming to dialysis on December 24^th that weekend, and resume my dialysis treatment on Wednesday that week. I personally think and believe the Dialysis center does not have to move everyone around and disrupting the patients’ schedule. It makes no sense. When my schedule is disrupted, I get anxious and upset really easy. I understand that the doctors want us to dialyze three times a week to get the benefit of a very good cleaning, though. I surely do not want to gain any fluid weight during the week and days off dialysis days, either, to be very honest. It just disrupts my schedule during the week changing my schedule at the clinic.

November has taken its last bow and left the stage to its right while December had come on the stage at its left. Let’s welcome December, everyone, ok? Winter is on its way now that the Christmas holiday season. Yep, Christmas is coming in twenty-four days from now. 

What a day! Laid in bed all day, napped some, read Stephen Kung’s Fairy Tales. Shucks, the gentleman died and now the young boy inherits the house the man left behind, but it is, the will, is in probate for at least six months. The dog Radar, poor pup, is old and dying now. The boy’s father is out in the woods with a AA sponsor right now on a campsite. The boy is in the shed on the shed on the man’s property in what the man calls Other World.

I get it! It’s the fairy tale SK talks about—ok! Another good book from the library on Libby, I have been reading lately. Another book I cannot put down, again, but have to so I can rest. What is rest? Sleep? Thank goodness I have had sleep during the night.

Well, this is the last day of November. Woohoo! Christmas this month. Mg sister is coming this year for our family Christmas dinner and gift exchange. Not sure if I like that idea yet because KLK has not been to my place, yet. Not sure if my parents will behave themselves because they emotionally abuse me when they visit my home/apartment. So, my parents do not behave themselves, lol.

Nervous

JP just texted me a few minutes ago to tell me I am having my first shower in three to four years. I am nervous about it because my catheter needs to be covered well and my gauze that covers the hole where my catheter comes out needs to be protected and do not get wet. I was told that I will not shower with the catheter being used.  She did call and cannot remember who she spoke to a year and a half ago. I wish I knew because I was told that I will not have showers as long as I have the hemodialysis catheter. Well, JP called and talked to one of the nurses, and she said that patients cannot take showers with the hemodialysis catheter in due to bacterial infections. Ok, I get it, and now she wants me to talk to Dr. A and I already know what he is going to say—no—absolutely no showers. JP called the clinic this afternoon and the nurse Tiff said no. So, I did not get a shower.

Got home a few minutes ago

 Making Sure I Do Not Miss Anything Today

With my day going a little better than recent days from November 25^th, I have to admit that I do not want to miss anything today. I am doing a play by play until I have free time to write my last entry of the day, and in this case, the last one of the nine I write tonight before I go to sleep. Last night, practically forget to take my meds at 9 AM, and my favorite lamp almost kept me awake. I am dialysis and have an hour and 11 minutes left to dialyze before being taken off for the day, and I will be heading’s home with YBWF around 3 PM. Dialysis is going smoothly for the most part today. The arterial line wants to alarm for some reason, and the lines are reversed today.

I was waiting for JP to arrive to help me get downstairs to wait for my morning medical ride You Buy We Flu and (YBWF). JP arrived and we got ready downstairs, and my ride arrived at 10:55 AM, and got to the clinic after a scenic route going around the backside of the hospital and the old Riverview clinic buildings. Honestly, the female Siri does not know where she is going, LOL. I never have a problem with my male Siri going places. Maybe the new 17.1.1 has more bugs in it. Who knows. Jeepers!! Maybe…???? Wait it out?

Anyway, I have arrived at the clinic for dialysis, and I am waiting for my turn to weigh in for treatment. The music playing is older songs and I love it. ‘My Fight Song’ just ended for the time being.

DH left between 9:30 AM and 9:45 AM to return with my poncho she bought for me to use this winter. I am using it today! Nice poncho. I live it, actually. JP arrived at 10:30 AM. I was so busy reading a Stephen King novel on Libby that I did not need to text her. I am sleepy because I have taken my Seroquel a couple of  hours ago. Oh, my goodness, not liking that too much. 

I had a fried egg sandwich for breakfast this morning. 😶‍🌫️ It was delicious. It was a fried egg on two pieces of toast with Swiss cheese. No turkey sausage patty today, again. I am dressed for the day as well. I am wearing black pants with a red t-shirt with a cat’s face of different colors and shapes in the cat’s face. A beautiful t-shirt my mother bought me after I showed her what I wanted a long time ago. Now I am waiting for JP to get here to get me downstairs to wait for my medical ride You Buy We Fly (YBWF).