Tuesday 16 July 2019
I called the hospital at 8:30 and they said that they already had a bed for me, which was great! They didn’t know what time I should come in, just at that moment, so they said that they’d call me back when they knew when my chemo drugs would be available.
I heard back from them around midday. Unfortunately my drugs were not going to be ready. Somehow my drug schedule had become disconnected from my appointment schedule and the pharmacy had me down for starting my cycle 3 treatment a day later. So someone at the hospital had screwed things up. I then heard that I was supposed to attend an appointment for a lung function test at 2 pm, but nobody had let me know about it and I wouldn’t have been able to make it by that point anyway. The lung function appointment was rebooked for the following day and I would have to call the chemo ward again the next morning to agree with them what time to come in.
I was quite put out to have been pushed back a day for some unknown reason. Had this happened in cycle 1 or 2 it would have messed up our child care arrangements, but fortunately with Pia’s mum staying for the entire week, we would be able to cope. The only shame would be that Pia would now miss the girls’ last day of the school year on Friday.
I was quite tired during the day and napped for a while in the afternoon. I felt a bit more phlegmy than previously, but probably coughed a little less overall than the day before.
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