Frustration Relief?!

This morning was quite frustrating for me. The injections had become more bothersome in my stomach and trying to find out results of my lab work was crazy. I sometimes feel I can no longer do the injections. The other frustration was trying to see a doctor before May 9th...even with connections or the fact that this could be a life or death matter I couldn't get in sooner.

I found out that my blood levels have not reached the desired level and I have to continue the injections that cost about $150 a day. My PTINR (not sure what that means) was a 0.97 when I left the hospital. As of Friday it was at 1.14. In order to discontinue the injections, the level has to be between 2 and 3. The places on my stomach are ugly and painful when rubbed or pressure is applied to them.

I finally found a doctor that can see me tomorrow. I have questions that need to be answered and would like to begin physical therapy for my knee and drive again. And maybe I will find out what my blood levels were today when I went to see the vampire (lab tech).

I went to the pharmacy today to get more of the medicine that has to be injected. I spoke to the pharmacist about the injections and learned it would be okay for me to administer the injections in areas other than the stomach. Tonight my mom gave it to be in the back of the arm. Should be interesting to see if my arm responds to it the same as my stomach. But, for the moment it felt much better than the stomach. And, this will give me the ability to rotate around more. That gave me a little relief from the frustration.

Too bad I can't twinkle my nose (Bewitched) to make it all better...or fast forward a few months. ;-) The good news in all of this...I have a wonderful mom that has been able to be here to help me through all of this and one of th steri strips came off today. One down and 9 to go before I can see what the incision looks like.