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Category Archives: Going Home
Complex Pain Management – 13 Feb 2013
Complex Pain Management specialists have become my best friends. It is pretty self-explanatory. They are responsible to make sure that the pain is under control and all the pills play nice together. We are talking serious drugs here and today … Continue reading
Posted in Back pain & fractures, Going Home, Healing Process, Home Challenges, Mobility Issues, New Normal, Side effects of long term steroids
Tagged adapted apartment, assisted living, back pain, GVHD, increased expenses, independence, limited mobility, living with cancer, mobility issues, steroids, vertebroplasty, wheelchair
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Financial Woes of Chronic Illnesses – 27 Jan 2013
Somebody once said cancer is easy, living is difficult. I’m surviving cancer, a stem cell transplant, GVHD, complications from the life-saving meds, so now what? I’ve already been through the steroid myopathy where I needed to learn to build muscles … Continue reading
What I won’t miss about the hospital – 6 May 2012
Other than the obvious of having been hospitalized for three months and having gone through hell and back, there are many things I will definitely NOT miss from here. Procedures, Tests, Transfusions, Infusions, Injections, etc. – the first thing I … Continue reading
Posted in Chronic GVHD, Going Home, Healing Process, Hospitalization, New Normal
Tagged air vents, blood sugar check, blood transfusions, blood work, bone marrow biopsy, bronchoscopy, cabin fever, Chest X-Rays, colonoscopy, constant interruption, constantly changing rooms, CT Angio Scans, CT Scans, diabetes, Dieulafoy Lesion< haemaclipping, dignity, ear plugs, efficiency, freezing rooms, hats, Head CT Scan, healing, home assistance, home help, home sick, hospital food, hospital noises, hospital rooms, human errors, Infections, infusions, IV lines, IV poles, Marie-Chantal Marchand, meds, midnight blood sugar pricks, midnight vitals, napping, neck lymph node biospy, no privacy, noise, PICC lines, platelet transfusions, privacy, procedures, Push Enteroscopy, respect, scarves, sigmoidoscopy, sleep dprivation, tests, visitors, wrong meds
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