This is a Life Blog and how Cancer has changed my personal outlook and daily life.

16 September 2009

Clinical Trial, Update

Ok, I've been on this 2nd trial since September 1st and so far have not had any major side-effects, minor side-effects I have experienced are: Fatigue and Headaches. The fatigue is the common side-effect and after the first week, I have been feeling really no more fatigue then usual. The last couple of nights I have been staying up a little later then normal, to get somethings completed. I know that I should be getting my sleep and resting as much as I can, but my personal life is starting to require more attention and I'm really not looking forward to providing the extra attention at this time; but it is necessary so that I don't loose personal items.
I have not discussed my personal matters on here before, but now I feel that it is necessary, so that I can vent/get it off my chest. Since the beginning of this year my Mum has been dealing with having her right hip replaced and she has been having problems with that not healing, infections and going back into the hospital a couple of times. The Orthopedic Surgeon she has is not very good at following up and giving forth right answers to the problems. This will be dealt with in good time. With Mum going into hospital this last time, she found out that the infection in her Hip was not as bad and Surgeon thought and he didn't have to remove the hip, so he packed the hip with antibiotics and sent her to rehab. While Mum was at home she fell a couple of times and the local Fire Department was called out. While Mum was in hospital a woman from Adult Protective Services made a visit and forced her way into the house, scaring the crap out of my eldest sister. Bottom line here, Mum wasn't allowed to go home, since it was a 2 story home and she had to climb stairs to get to the restroom...This caused tensions to run high and talk amongst the family that Mum was going to be moving into a house that had everything on the first floor, which is what we have been trying to do for sometime now, so this is a blessing for us. The move of Mum's stuff is being taken care of in a manner that is not the best, since I still have items at the house and couple of them have come up missing and my inquires into where they are at has been met with resistance. The difficult part of this, for me at least, is not letting my emotion get the best of me and causing more problems then necessary. Plus, when a few of the items that have been moved, no one called me to ask about my personal items what I would like done with them.
OK, enough of my personal life drama and on with the Clinical Trial....LOL!! I have been most amazed at the attention I have been getting each time I am in the Phase 1 Unit, which is good, since I get this from every Nurse in the Unit, at first I was a little freaked out, but now that I have been going up there, I am getting use to it. It is refreshing also to see that they take the time to check on my well being, offer assistance when necessary, or a bit of encouragement when needed. I will be ending this, since the calls here are starting to pick up and I'm needed.

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