I know you didn't mean to tease, but I read your Kaiser blog just before I left to have my bone marrow biopsy and WOW, what a difference. 1. I had been told to show up at 9AM to be prepped for a 10 AM procedure. As soon as Walt dropped me off the 8AM patient walked in and everyone got bumped an hour. 2. Fortunately I had asked whether I would need a driver; otherwise no one told me. 3. No one had said not to eat after midnight because they might want to sedate me. Of course I had eaten breakfast, but I managed to talk my way out of being sedated (just a local). Since I wasn't being sedated I also got out of having someone search for a vein for an intervenous line. 4. About then I decided to ask whether they knew I was taking Coumadin. Uh-oh. The only lucky part of the whole procedure was that the Physician's Assistant knew me well enough to realize that she could trust my judgement about having a high pain threshhold, etc. So Freddie, the friendly and sympathetic nurse, returned to say "It's a go!. I got to leave after nearly three hours and the only problem is an achy back and a bandaid that won't stick. And all this time my oncologist is basking in the Hawaiian sun.
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Date: 2008-02-22 08:46 pm (UTC)1. I had been told to show up at 9AM to be prepped for a 10 AM procedure. As soon as Walt dropped me off the 8AM patient walked in and everyone got bumped an hour.
2. Fortunately I had asked whether I would need a driver; otherwise no one told me.
3. No one had said not to eat after midnight because they might want to sedate me. Of course I had eaten breakfast, but I managed to talk my way out of being sedated (just a local). Since I wasn't being sedated I also got out of having someone search for a vein for an intervenous line.
4. About then I decided to ask whether they knew I was taking Coumadin. Uh-oh. The only lucky part of the whole procedure was that the Physician's Assistant knew me well enough to realize that she could trust my judgement about having a high pain threshhold, etc. So Freddie, the friendly and sympathetic nurse, returned to say "It's a go!.
I got to leave after nearly three hours and the only problem is an achy back and a bandaid that won't stick. And all this time my oncologist is basking in the Hawaiian sun.