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MY WORD OF THE WEEK – Unlucky
I was going to choose another word, but it’s week Thirteen and it’s Friday and unlucky seemed more appropriate if slightly less accurate.
First of all, it’s one of my exciting weeks…yes, I get to leave the house to go to hospital. What an exciting life I lead. My family really don’t want me to start having treatment at home because going to hospital actually gets me out of the house. It’s hard to make them understand. I’d rather go anywhere else.
Not that I have anything at all against the hospital. I truly appreciate all they do for me. But this week there have been a few whoopsies! (which was going to be my word before I chose unlucky.)
Day One, I fell asleep. I was listening to my e-book so I had to go back and listen to two chapters again. I woke up when they lifted up my hand to scan my wristband which means they were changing over my medication to the second bottle. I’m glad I woke up because I noticed straight away it was the the wrong bottle. I pointed it out and things got a bit awry for a bit. It was a mix up with the printout for the medication, no one was to blame. I guess I just got unlucky, but at least I noticed and got my correct dosage.
Day two, I arrived and the new receptionist told me to go along to bay one. On arrival there were no chairs. So, a nurse told me to wait a little while and they’d get a chair ready for me. So I went back to the corridor to wait. Another patient arrived and the receptionist told them bay one. They walked up and instantly got comfortable in the chair the nurse had just prepared for me! I could see her going for it but who was I to say ‘hey that’s my chair!’ I guess I was just unlucky to be in a wheelchair and she was quicker than me. The nurse was extremely apologetic and I had a 20 minute wait for the next chair.
Also on Day two, I was almost finished and everything had seemed to be fine, apart from me being late to go home because of the original wait. Then the nurse looked at my cannula and my vein had burst which mean the medication had gone under my skin instead, causing swelling. I hadn’t felt anything (it’s happened before and usually it’s painful.) The medication absorbs itself into my body so that’s not a problem but Day three I began my treatment with another cannula insertion. It’s been quite an unlucky week.
Now it’s over to you, what word or phrase sums up your week this week?
I am glad that the mix ups weren’t worse because they so easily could have been! That lady who went to sit in ‘your’ chair could have been given your medication too! I hope the Easter weekend is lovely for you. Hope the family members are all better now too.
We are medicated according to our wristbands, which is good. But the dosage has to be spread over 3 days for me and they were about to give me another 200mg bottle when I was due 100mg. It wouldn’t have been so bad, but it would have meant another extra hour or so in hospital and a much worse headache later on. Thank you, we are all feeling a little better now and looking forward to Easter, although I do miss my old church, I always loved Easter more than Christmas. But that was when I lived in my old house. I’ve tried several churches here but never found another ‘family’
Uh-oh! The whoopsies are not good. That is good that you noticed the wrong medication and the burst vein doesn’t sound good but I suppose it’s just one of those things.
I hope you have a nice, lucky weekend. x
I normally notice burst veins but this one didn’t even hurt, I guess my body is used to them. The next cannula went in first time, yay. A lucky weekend sounds nice xx
That is definitely a series of unlucky events. Good job you caught the wrong dose, so maybe you were lucky there. Hope next week is a chain of lucky moments for you to balance it all out.
This week is definitely going to be better, there is chocolate!
Oh poor you! You have been through it mate. Thankfully you noticed the wrong dose! I hope next week is more lucky for you. xxx
Thank you, I hope so x
I’m so sorry you had these unlucky things happen to you at the hospital. I’m so glad you noticed the medicine mix-up, that could have been a lot worse! I wouldn’t have been happy about them giving my char away but I don’t think I would have been able to being myself to say anything either #WotW
That’s worrying that you were almost given the wrong bottle. I’m hoping that it would have been flagged with scanning your wristband though had you not noticed the dosage was incorrect. Glad you didn’t have too long to wait after someone else sat in your chair. Hope you weren’t too sore with the vein bursting with the cannula and then having to have a replacement cannula. #WotW