Ugh. The tech didn’t get the arterial needle in right again this morning. After a bit of gauze and pressure to stop the bleeding, he managed to get it to work. However, they had to stick some more gauze under the needle to support it, so the angle of entry is weird. The result is that every minute, pretty sharp pain would shoot through my arm at the arterial needle site. It’s been 30 minutes of pain and I have three hours left. At least the blood is flowing.
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Just got home. I typed the above one-handed while on the dialysis chair. The four hours went by slowly. I finally fell asleep during the session just to have the rounding nephrologist wake me up. There was nothing new except he lowered my “dry” weight to 82.5 kg. I think I finished today at 82.7 kg, but my legs are still a bit swollen. Ugh, how much excess fluid do I have?
I picked up a 4-kabob family combo from Panini Kabob Grill after dialysis since my cousin and his wife are visiting us for lunch. They went to see their daughter (I guess that would be my niece) in San Diego, and they’re driving home to the Bay Area. I talked to them for awhile but I can’t eat lunch right now. I have the Lexiscan test later this afternoon and the technician wants me to fast beforehand in case I have a reaction to the injection and vomit.
It’s about 11:45 am now so I have to leave in about 40 minutes. The arterial insertion site was hurting all session long and it’s still hurting even now. Also, when the tech pulled out the venous needle, it hurt really bad. Today was just a painful day. I wish they could have kept me on the chest catheter for a bit longer.
Life with chronic diseases 