Introducing ourselves

If your GP contacts Canberra (govt) to get an authority for long term use of Clexane, you'll get 3 boxes for the price of one. We get the bulk script (one month's supply) for around $36 instead of $36 each box. Your GP should know anout this I would think.

At my last appointment with the Haematologist, she ASSURED me that the clots would have disolved by now. I was worried that they'd come back too. She was really emphatic that they weren't a problem anymore. But because I have now had the DVT and the PEs, I may have to be on blood thinners for life. I can cope with the tablets though. I really feel for people who have to have injections for life. But if it keeps you healthy then its a good thing.

I really hope your course of antibiotics clears up your neumonia Karon, but if it doesn't they'll put you on another course. I still have a cough that I developed last November that I can't seen to shake completely and I'm on yet another course of medication to try and get rid of it. I was a bit scared that it was something else but had a chest xray and, apart from some conjestion, its all clear.

Unfortunately this now will be our lives in worrying about little things that normally wouldn't knock a feather off us but I guess we aren't alone in that. I try not to worry too much and just get on with things. But I won't take my health for granted at all! I now go to my GP much more regularly to check things than I ever have before. Sometimes I feel like a bit of a hypochondriac but so be it. I figure that I'm not wasting anybody's time and it's for my own peace of mind. I wasn't really known at my health clinic before BC because I hardly ever went there but know I just have to walk in the door and everybody knows me. It's kinda nice!

Well Karon, Bill will be quite the expert as Ian is for me. They could give lessons to some of the nurses I've had in a bed side manner too. I get a loving kiss before and after too (not that I'd like the nurses to do that LOL) and that's got to be nice.

I'll be thinking of you now when I have my needle :)

Love Janey xxx