Dr. Don

Today was supposed to be restful, but it went awry! We did sleep late, and that was nice. Then we went to the IHOP for brunch and that was nice. After that we intended to go to Wal-Mart and get heparin for my heparin flushes for my picc line. Wrong. They don’t have it. NOBODY has it! We looked all over at the Walgreens, CVS, and Krogers and nobody carries it. They could all ORDER it, but we had to have it today. You have to flush these deals every 24 hours. They made sure to tell us THAT, but they didn’t tell us we had to get them at the MD Anderson pharmacy. So, off we drove back to MD Anderson instead of taking a nap. Ugh. It takes an hour to get there no matter when you go, it seems. Anyway, we got the heparin and Don flushed my picc for the first time tonight.

We went out to eat at a Mexican restaurant tonight on our way to the Texas Opry Jamboree in Magnolia. It was a taste of small town Texas, sort of right on the edge of Houston. It was fun, but I was exhausted. We had great seats; right in the middle of the 3rd row from the front. A couple of Doris and Jerry’s friends have those seats regularly, but they were out of town this week, so we got to go get their seats. Way cool!

Two of the pictures on the blog tonight are of Dr. Don flushing my picc line. The picc line is doing just fine and Don makes a great doctor. I would really call it nursing, but he called himself the doctor and I’m not about to argue with him or demote him! He’s the best of whatever he is. God is good to give him to me! All of you, too! Thanks for being in my corner!

The other picture is my picc line all wrapped and ready for last night’s bath. I wrap it first in a plastic sleeve, which I tape around the edges. Then Jerry came in last night with an extra plastic bag and a couple of rubber bands suggesting that I make a second wrap just to give extra protection from water. If the bandage gets wet I have to go to the hospital to have them change it until Don gets cleared to do it. We couldn’t get that clearing scheduled until next Friday, so it’s imperative that I keep it dry. Jerry was my hero last night; what a great idea that was and it worked beautifully. God is so good to surround me with all this support! There was a lady in class with us the other day and she said she has to do all her own stuff because her husband can’t stand to look at anything medical or even her port. Man, sometimes you just don’t have choices and you make the best of situations, but you don’t leave your spouse just hanging out there alone! I felt so sorry for her and was reminded again how lucky I am to have Dr. Don! (I’m sure he’s not enjoying any of this, either, but he wouldn’t abandon me for a minute!)