So,
It's 8:15 here and I finally found someone who knew how to get me onto the wifi. Yay!
This was a long day. Started out up at 4am to get ready and get to the plane to Honolulu. Shuttle to Kaiser. Then I got my new MRI scan done and a DEXA bone density test.
Then I got transferred over to Queens Hospital. This place is nice! I have my own room with a window that looks out toward Diamond Head. The staff have all been very helpful and kind and the food is even pretty darn good for a hospital. I and a Caesar salad with salmon for lunch and bacon and eggs for dinner. They have passionfruit cheesecake! I have passion fruit falling off the trees at home. Must try making that. It's like a restaurant menu but you call up and order and they are happy to make substitutions or explain exactly what is in something.
I have my head all plugged in to wires and it looks a bit "Bride of Frankenstein". I just have to keep reminding myself not to scratch at the leads. Since the doc thinks mine is probably frontal lobe, most of the leads are around my forehead and one on each cheekbone plus some others around the whole scalp and five leads to my torso.
They do insist on having a "seat belt" around me at all times one on the bed and one on the big comfy chair. And I have to call for assistance to unplug and get to the bathroom. I'm trying to heed Matthew's advice about letting them do their thing and not fighting it even though I know I would be fine getting to the bathroom on my own at least for now. I guess they never know when someone will start sliding from well controlled into not so well controlled so they just have to make it a blanket policy from the minute you hook up.
Oh, and when I was at Kaiser a couple of weeks ago for my neurology appointment, I had my annual mammogram done "while I was at it" and they got me the results of that today. Everything came back all clear. That makes eight years post treatment.
:woot:
It's 8:15 here and I finally found someone who knew how to get me onto the wifi. Yay!
This was a long day. Started out up at 4am to get ready and get to the plane to Honolulu. Shuttle to Kaiser. Then I got my new MRI scan done and a DEXA bone density test.
Then I got transferred over to Queens Hospital. This place is nice! I have my own room with a window that looks out toward Diamond Head. The staff have all been very helpful and kind and the food is even pretty darn good for a hospital. I and a Caesar salad with salmon for lunch and bacon and eggs for dinner. They have passionfruit cheesecake! I have passion fruit falling off the trees at home. Must try making that. It's like a restaurant menu but you call up and order and they are happy to make substitutions or explain exactly what is in something.
I have my head all plugged in to wires and it looks a bit "Bride of Frankenstein". I just have to keep reminding myself not to scratch at the leads. Since the doc thinks mine is probably frontal lobe, most of the leads are around my forehead and one on each cheekbone plus some others around the whole scalp and five leads to my torso.
They do insist on having a "seat belt" around me at all times one on the bed and one on the big comfy chair. And I have to call for assistance to unplug and get to the bathroom. I'm trying to heed Matthew's advice about letting them do their thing and not fighting it even though I know I would be fine getting to the bathroom on my own at least for now. I guess they never know when someone will start sliding from well controlled into not so well controlled so they just have to make it a blanket policy from the minute you hook up.
Oh, and when I was at Kaiser a couple of weeks ago for my neurology appointment, I had my annual mammogram done "while I was at it" and they got me the results of that today. Everything came back all clear. That makes eight years post treatment.
:woot:
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