I'm about 48 hours into this. A few thoughts at these early stages:
First off, it definitely hurt more than I thought it would, but seems to be abating quickly enough. Didn't really bother me last night at all, and while I did taken an ibuprofen here at work, overall definite improvement.
Secondly, doing my research ahead of time and having things at home and ready for this has been HUGE. I felt prepared, and I was prepared. It's made the transition to this new "life" a tad bit easier. Having the sleeve covers is great, having all my supplies there makes it a million times easier. Far less stress.
Third, this is VERY TIME CONSUMING. They say 30 minutes to infuse - that's a best case scenario, and even with taking things out of the fridge well in advance, most of the time it's more like 40 minutes. Plus prep, flush, flush again, heparin, clean up, it's a solid hour every single time. Granted, at work and in the mornings I go and do other stuff while it's infusing, but that's still a hunk of time. Definitely something you need to plan for if you're going to be doing something where active infusion would be difficult.
Fourth, it's a royal PITA. Twice a day wouldn't be anywhere near as bad, but having to do it 3x a day at 8 hour intervals makes it a LOT more complicated.
Lastly, at this point, it's not seeming too intrusive, BUT, it's also a bit early to tell. Probably too soon to make any judgement calls on side effects or other issues. At this point I'm still paranoid so being extra careful about cleanliness and such - not sure that after several weeks of this that the paranoia will still be as strong. .
Already tired of it. A couple weeks I feel like I could suck it up and deal with it, but god damn, 6 weeks of this is feeling like an eternity right now...
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