It all started at 9 am when my mom woke me up asking me if I wanted to go a little earlier(my original appointment was for 12:30pm). I said I would be there ASAP, got up, ate breakfast, jumped in the shower, threw on the comfiest clothes I could find and we(my mom and I) were off. On the way there I had my regrets but I told myself I'd be fine.
After quickly stoping by Shopper's to pay the government my piddly little $95 dollar deductable so that I could have a $4,000 drug I surpassed the 50 or so people in the waiting room for the Urgent Care Clinic(man that felt good, almost like a VIP!) and went into the infusion room.
I met my nurse Wendy and two older gentlemen just finishing up(I came at an odd time). Wendy was VEERRRYYYy nice! She walked me through where everything is, what she would be doing, and took my weight. Then she had me sit in the (rather comfy) chair and she did my temperature and blood pressure. It was a bit high(I think because I was a tad nervous).
Then she started my IV(on the first try! WOO HOO! I have really bad veins) and stared the saline(which I hate because it burns so freaking awfully much!). She ran over to the Pharmacy and got my Remicade solution mixed up. They brought it, she hooked it up on slow drip just to make sure I could handle it, and away I went. I sat, watched the end of The View with Weird Al, watched the news about the idiot that dove down onto a pile of rocks on the weeked, then watched Hoarders with my new friend Julie(another patient whose second time it was). The nurse(who was also semi-deaf) came over periodically to ask how I was feeling, take vitals and temperature, and turn up the drip.
Well it only took about two hours and I was done. I had a few more mgs. of fluids and out came the IV(my most unfavourite part on account of the tape and came home. No affects what-so-ever except I'm a tad tired and I have a small headache.
....so that was my exciting day of boring-ness. I hope next time it's more eventful....
