The Walk Beside

Biopsy daysie

Posted on July 19th, 2007 by Cam.
Categories: Let's talk.

I can think of nicer ways to spend a Wednesday morning than having a sternum biopsy. Don’t get me wrong, I have nothing against rather large needles puncturing the remaining wall of a chest bone in order to extract a few vials of fluid. It’s just that I would have preferred an alternative.

I have issues with sedatives. I think my body loves a good sedative, and laughs in the face of mild anaesthetics. During the hip biopsy last week, I think they were supposed to sedate me so that I would not remember the procedure. They loaded up one dose of medaz and then that didn’t work, so they ended up doubling it and I still talked all the way through the procedure and remember everything we talked about. I was conscious right up until they showed me the sample they had taken out. I think that is where I passed out. I can’t really remember the footage that was taken straight after.

Today, I only had a sleeping tablet and a few painkillers to settle me down. Then it was just local anaesthetic so I had to talk my way through it all to keep my mind off what was going on. I think I need a Medic Alert tag that says “Just double the dose”.

Generally, I am finding that my memory is shot at the moment and thinking is unclear. I am not suspecting anything medical that would explain it, just that I think emotionally I am recovering from the last two weeks. Libs is heading back to work tomorrow to work out possible strategies to prepare for the weeks and months to come. It will be good for us both to get back into things to rest our frontal lobes. I am going to head into the workshop with Damian tomorrow to finish setting things up, and going shopping with Guennadi to do a fit out of our offices/workshops. I am going to set about keeping as active as I can before and during the radiation which will be starting in about 3 weeks. We won’t get the results back from the biopsy for two weeks. That will tell us if it is the nasty cytoma or the not-so nasty cytoma.

Anyway, emotionally and physically spent at the moment, so I will concentrate on getting some sleep.

Prayer for the day:
Thanks God for Codeine, and please make Pethadeine available at all leading chemists.

Song for the day:
I Can’t Get No Sedatefaction

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