So out of the habit of our new routine of weekly visits to Primary's, it was hard for Indie and I to get ready to go. Indie had done the usual fasting from midnight on and she reminded me the day before that she is not to take her blood thinner medicine the day before and the day of a back poke. We arrived at the hem/onc clinic at 11 for her routine check up, then back downstairs for the back poke. I get to go in the procedure room to be with her when they knock her out, then I go back to the waiting room...and well, wait. Then I go into the recovery room while she wakes up.
Not five minutes after being asleep, the Dr. who does the back poke came to me and asked when we stopped the Coumadin (blood thinner pills).....I told him the day before like always (with the Lovenox, blood thinner injections). "No!, No!", he said, "we cannot do this today she has to stop the pills 5 or 6 days before or she could bleed internally from her spine and we would not know about it for a long time". He was not happy (that no one figured that out before hand), I was not happy (that no one told me differently), Indie was happy when she woke up 3o minutes later and we told her "No back poke today!" (Laugh) "That's funny" she said, in a groggy voice.
We go back on Tuesday to do it again, but through it all Indie keeps a sense of humor and of course that million dollar smile, If SHE can do it so can I!
Sorry, that's a mouth full but its as 'in a nut shell' as I could get! Indie is great, rosy cheeked and going to school almost full time. And the boy in her class that likes her is still staring at her all day....
Thanks for checking in.
Love, Heidi
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Is that boy in her class cute? : )
Yes, I hear he is cute and funny. He shaved his head before anybody else.
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