Friday, March 27, 2009

Quick Reaction

So today was a rather long day but not bad. I started my day off getting up at 8:30 so that I could get to fresco on time for once since I would have to leave early. I checked my email and Dr. Travis wanted me to check my INR daily so I did that before I left for class, it was high again. I left to go buy bus tickets since it was already 9 and I wanted to get there as fast as possible. I got the tickets but I sat in the back of the bus and I didn't have to use them since the driver wasn't checking today. I got to class and had a really good time like I always do with my Mario and my friends. I was not able to paint a fresco, even though we are working on a much smaller scale. However, I did get my image drawn out. I decided to draw a tiger, which I actually traced. By the time I was done tracing and poking holes into the tracing paper I needed to leave to get to SACI and have them call me a cab. I got on the bus and after about 4 stops realized I got on bus number 33 not 23! I got off the bus when I knew where I was, at the piazza near the Design Center. I got off and started walking then realized I was turned around and had walked to the wrong side of the piazza. I walked as fast as I could to SACI since this bus took me a lot longer to get back and I got turned around. I got there and Sam called me a cab. It was smooth sailing from there. The cab dropped me off and I was only a few minutes late. As I was waiting to get my treatment started I realized that I forgot to get a panino and had eaten nothing all day except drinking a cup of coffee at the fresco studio. They set me all up with my IV and I asked for some food and they brought me some crackers, a banana, and a yogurt. I ate everything because I was so hungry and watched The Dark Knight. As the movie ended I felt like I was having some acid reflux or something in my throat and chest as I got up to go to the bathroom. When I cam out of the bathroom the pain in my throat and chest had gotten worse so I told the nurse. She said ok and went to get someone. As I sat back down in my chair I got extremely hot, worse pain, and started to cough repeatedly because I was having some trouble breathing. Within minutes I had 2 nurses and a doctor around me taking my blood pressure and pulse-ox. The doctor told me he was going to stop the treatment, I only had 1 bottle left, and give me steroids. I got 2 shots of steroids and 2 bags of fluids before they would let me go home. After the steroids went in I felt much better. I took a cab home and was ready to relax for the rest of the day. I took a shower because I felt gross from sweating so much durning the reaction. After my shower I made dinner, pasta and salmon. While I was making dinner and doing some laundry our power went out 2 times which was annoying. After dinner I was craving some cookies and was out so I ran down to Conad, the supermarket, and bought some and a pack of 2 light bulbs since one of ours was out. When I came home I attempted to change the bulb, which you would think would be easy. I put the first bulb in and it blew out immediately, but I did not know this until I tried for about 5 minutes to turn it on. I threw out the bulb and put in the second one that worked just fine. So I am now sitting on the couch relaxing for the rest of the night.

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