Wednesday, December 15, 2010

My clinic vist


Yesterday was a very long day. The drive down was not too bad but the drive home was hell, actually if there was something worse then hell I would say that. I left St Mikes at 4:00 and did not get home till 9:00. It took me a whole 2.5 hours to get from St Mikes to the 401. Damn you in experienced Toronto drivers! There was about 1/4 inch of snow on the ground and they were driving like there was 2 feet. Maybe they should come up here and drive the winter, on roads that you basically don't see the asphalt till the spring.
SO back on track. I did my pft's and they were down which I suspected. They went from 1.04 from last month to .87 so down to 21% lung function again :( So Dr T said it probably means admit, but she said whats with me and Christmas cause its exactly a year since I was last admitted. She said it is a full house and people waiting, said I could go thru emrg but thats a 24 hour wait and she didn't want to do that to me and its really icky down there. Then she said I got have a Picc line put in as outpatient and do homecare. So that is what we decided to do as I have done homecare before and had no problems with it and I still get to sleep in my own bed :) so before she made her final decision she wanted to get some blood work and a chest xray so I was off to do that. When I got back up to clinic Dr T had gotten my chest xray and said there was a little congestion up in the left upper of my lung she said probably from my sore muscles and not being able to clear it. So Friday I have to go down to St Mikes to have a picc line put in and do one dose of iv's up at clinic. Then I can go home.
Another thing she was excited to tell me when she came in was they got paper work from McMaster clinic from a study I had done years and years ago when they were collecting sputum to cuture the different bacterias. They identified the Psuedomonias straighn I have as the Liverpool strain which is the "old" one from back in the 80's She said alot of it was passed around in the cf camps they use to have. She said they have only seen 7 of those strains in patients today so she is happy they have controlled it with all their infection control.
So that is it in a nut shell, I will post again and let people know how things go in Friday.

4 comments:

  1. I'm glad they didn't have to admit you, I know it sucked last year being in so close to Christmas. Although we did have fun coming to visit and bringing Julie the porno-balloon lady :-P (oh, people are gonna wonder about that one).

    Keep me posted.. and if you need anything let me know.

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  2. I will have to find the pic of Julie and post it to this blog haha

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