The best laid plans...
Day 16 - after round five.
Well thanks to the universe, my day was ruined!
Had a great night's sleep...wake up put kettle on and BAM! The nose bleed form Hell!
Nose bleeds are something I am used too...I have dealt with them all my life.....but I've e only had one other that warranted help form the hospital and that was many years ago! I have even had my nose cauterised, but that didn't really stop them....they usually only last a few minutes...ten at most.
I thought it would be a routine nose bleed, but no....it just kept pouring.....and pouring! After about 20 minutes and my efforts to stop it failed, I decided to call an ambulance.......He arrived and pinched (really hard) my nose for about 15mins which managed to stop it a bit, eventually it did manage to slow to a dribble, lucky as he was armed with some yucky spray that would help the vessels shrink and some "tampons"......immediately I had the vision of me with two pink strings hanging out of my nose! that bought a laugh!...and of course these "tampons" don't look like that! but they are called tampons! hahaha!
The blood became very pale which was concerning to the ambo seeing I didn't have a cold or anything...so after my obs were taken....off to hospital I went.
Gained V.I.P entry again and was checked by the specialist Dr on duty....and attacked by the resident vampire once more....All good until I tried to stand up and the bleeding started again.....
I stayed lying down and was administered the yucky spray after all...then my nose was plugged with gauze soaked in something or other......not the most pleasant experience.....but after a few hours of looking like a walrus...it did the trick!
My bloods came back good. I have been very lucky throughout all of this to have good blood results. My haemoglobin is a little low, but nothing to worry about as it's considered "normal" for a cancer and chemo patient to be a little low......and with no real answer as to why my nose bled so much...I was allowed to go home.
What a waste of a day! Arggh! So annoyed, I had planned to get a few things done, then to go to work for a little while.....
Just another paragraph in the book of chemo! We never really know what it's going to do to us.....until it happens!
Well I know I'll sleep well tonight, my second V.I.P event has tired me out!
Tomorrow is another day and hopefully I get to do what I wanted to get done today.....
Have a great night all!
