Here is the big big news first. I went to coumadin training yesterday and I am allowed some alcohol, yea. They said 2 glasses of wine, 2x 12 oz beers or 1 mixed drink. I raised my hand and said that most draughts @ bars come in 16 and 22 ozs and the healthcare provider said with a smirk, "you can do the Math". I suggested they may want to look at there metric again however there is a guy in there clinic that goes wine tasting in France every year and has his blood taken every day while he is on vacation. The good news for me is I am only on Coumadin 3-6 months (hopefully 3 weeks as I have done 5 weeks already).
Yesterday was a bit frustrating. After PT, I had SLP (Speech, Language and Pathology or "SLOP" as I have coined it). I have been going thru testing and yesterday they gave me a test that surprised me. On Thursday I received a memory test with between 20-25 characters that were shapes and lines with names example ": : :"= the word AND or IS (not sure), "l"= to the word TREE. On Thursday, they gave me the pictures for about 30 seconds and to me to remember the shape or item to word. Then they showed them on a chart and asked me to say what they were. This went on for 10 minutes and as they grew the list of shapes and lines I forgot more items (remember this was on Thursday).
Yesterday they showed me the same list but did not tell me were and asked me to what they were in 5 lists. It was very frustrating when I left.
My coumadin training was after that. I mentioned it above. It was good and they asked me to
take a blood test afterwards at MGH. I walked over with the packet of info to MGH after my Coumadin training. I had my blood drawn and then left to meet my Mom. She was visiting a friend in a different Wing of MGH. She wanted to go downstairs to eat something so I went with her to the MGH Cafe. It was there that I had discovered that the packet of info from the Coumadin clinic was gone. I went back to the Wang wing and blood clinic to see if it was there and it was not. There I went over to the Heart wing on Ellison and the packet was not there. I then went back downstairs and scoured the MGH cafeteria and it was not there. It was forgotten first and lost. Frustrating.
That's it for today,
Brian
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Brian,
ReplyDeleteIf it's any consolation I am constantly losing items (that I just had a minute ago). I feel like I suffered memory loss thanks to the fun of moving twice in one year. Unfortunately, someone probably picked up your paperwork. I hope you can get another set.
Di