Friday, July 30, 2021

How Many Appointments can Happen in One Week?!?

I think that next week may be a test for how many appointments can be fit into one week! He has a CAT scan in Murfreesboro scheduled, 3 hemodialysis appointments, appointment with his oncologist, labs at oncology, and Keytruda treatment, appointment with his urologist about his biopsy, and today he got surgery to try to get his peritoneal catheter working again. My head is spinning. A couple of the above will have to be changed to another day. Oncology labs are going to be used for the labs he needs for surgery...so at least he doesn't have to go to the hospital to preregister...that is supposed to happen over the phone. I guess it can all happen...only time will tell! Woody will start the ball rolling when he goes to dialysis tomorrow and at least tell them that he is having surgery on Thursday (his usual dialysis day). The surgeon wanted him to have dialysis the day before surgery...whether that can happen or not will depend on dialysis and their very tight schedule...they are at capacity so it is hard to move folk around...of course, if we can get this surgery to make Woody's catheter to work again, then they will be able to drop Woody as a hemo patient and we can start doing his dialysis at home again. All to complicated to even think about at the moment. The changes will have to be dealt with next week. Today I found that I can watch a season of Project Runway with the Peacock App that I downloaded to be able to view the Olympics...I hadn't seen Project Runway in so long that it trumped the Olympics and I have enjoyed a cross stitching/Project Runway day when I took breaks in my recliner...and I took many breaks! I am coming along on my sampler...worked on a line of grass that runs across the whole sampler and also started on the third house. So it has been a quiet day once we got back from the visit with the surgeon. It was sort of funny that he didn't address the last surgery that he performed four weeks ago...just the next one that he would perform! Of course, the whole purpose of the surgery performed four weeks ago was to repair the tears in his peritonium so peritoneal dialysis could resume...so this coming up surgery is a continuation of trying to get Woody back on peritoneal dialysis. This surgery will be like the original surgery that he performed last year to place the catheter...but won't be placing the catheter this time...just trying to reposition it and find out what is causing it to only fill very slowly and then to not drain. It will be done laparoscopically as was the placing of the catheter. So another surgery for Woody in the very near future...less than a week away. Be safe! Be well! Be cautious!

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