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HS: Post-Treatment
The treatment went fine.
No effort at all to find a vein and get it all stuck up, though the bit of backflow was a bit of unnerving when I noticed it. I usually look away. Another guy in the room was really talkative, kept telling how much it helped his arthritis, and we (me and the doc) kept mentioning that I didn't I have the same thing, though we didn't really discuss what I had. Occurrs to me now he probably shouldn't've said anything about why I was there, but it doesn't matter that much to me. The other guy also kept trying to convince me I wanted to give up teaching and be a financial planner. Even gave me his card. It started to sound like a pyramid scheme.
After he left, another woman came in who didn't speak English. Her son or whatever he was left before her process started, so he wasn't able to explain to her that the doc couldn't find a vein in the first elbow-pit, or get into the vein on the other one, and she kept muttering "?por que?" She mutterred to herself a lot, so it wasn't just a language barrier... She eventually figured it out when I mentioned to the doc that she looked confused and didn't seem to speak English, and he started explaining in English anyway. Maybe she understood English but just couldn't speak it? That hadn't occurred to me until now. When he took the needle out the second time, she tapped her left hand, and he immediately found a good vein there. This was all much more exciting than T$ and I sitting there watching my bag drip. And now I know why he told me to hydrate myself during the morning.
After around a third of the bag was done - it was something like 300ml (order of magnitude) of a saline solution, and another 50ml injected in of the Remicade or a solution of it - he adjusted the flow rate to go faster, so that the infusion itself ended up only taking between 1:15 and 1:30, instead of the full two hours predicted. Yay.
I was discombobulated for work after, and that hand's been feeling tingly all day since - I'm sure it's just psychological, or that I'm holding the arm at a funny angle b/c of the bandaid in the elbow, but I'm glad I requested my left arm rather than my right. I've heard two weeks as the date people start to notice improvement for rheumatoid arthritis. I've also got my next appt in two weeks, March 8. Updates will come.
No effort at all to find a vein and get it all stuck up, though the bit of backflow was a bit of unnerving when I noticed it. I usually look away. Another guy in the room was really talkative, kept telling how much it helped his arthritis, and we (me and the doc) kept mentioning that I didn't I have the same thing, though we didn't really discuss what I had. Occurrs to me now he probably shouldn't've said anything about why I was there, but it doesn't matter that much to me. The other guy also kept trying to convince me I wanted to give up teaching and be a financial planner. Even gave me his card. It started to sound like a pyramid scheme.
After he left, another woman came in who didn't speak English. Her son or whatever he was left before her process started, so he wasn't able to explain to her that the doc couldn't find a vein in the first elbow-pit, or get into the vein on the other one, and she kept muttering "?por que?" She mutterred to herself a lot, so it wasn't just a language barrier... She eventually figured it out when I mentioned to the doc that she looked confused and didn't seem to speak English, and he started explaining in English anyway. Maybe she understood English but just couldn't speak it? That hadn't occurred to me until now. When he took the needle out the second time, she tapped her left hand, and he immediately found a good vein there. This was all much more exciting than T$ and I sitting there watching my bag drip. And now I know why he told me to hydrate myself during the morning.
After around a third of the bag was done - it was something like 300ml (order of magnitude) of a saline solution, and another 50ml injected in of the Remicade or a solution of it - he adjusted the flow rate to go faster, so that the infusion itself ended up only taking between 1:15 and 1:30, instead of the full two hours predicted. Yay.
I was discombobulated for work after, and that hand's been feeling tingly all day since - I'm sure it's just psychological, or that I'm holding the arm at a funny angle b/c of the bandaid in the elbow, but I'm glad I requested my left arm rather than my right. I've heard two weeks as the date people start to notice improvement for rheumatoid arthritis. I've also got my next appt in two weeks, March 8. Updates will come.
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