Hodge-Podge of a Post

Hello readers. Welcome back!


Sorry I have been MIA the past week and a half.  Nothing much on the medical side has changed.  Last week I was told my INR level went up a bit but was still not in the 2-3 range.  This meant that I increased my Warfarin on Monday and Thursday to a mil gram that I have never done in the past four months.  Scary, I know, but I did what the doctor says.  And tomorrow I will be getting my blood drawn to see if increasing the medicine has helped get my INR level where it's supposed to or if my body just does not want to fight anymore.


On another note, my steroids continue to decrease and yesterday began taking only one steroid pill per day.  Super exciting news right there.  Pretty soon I'm not even going to need to have the steroids anymore!  The other inside medicine that I have taking has been changed too.  Instead of taking a pill eight times a day, which I hated and had several breakdowns because of, I only have to take one pill four times a day which is what I was doing before.  This does not mean that the medicine was not increased, I just asked my doctor to put in a new prescription for the higher dosage.


Now onto Henry.  Oh Henry.  He's been hurting a bit.  Some days Henry is extremely weird with a feeling that is more intense then your foot awakening after it has fallen asleep.  There are other days that my knee hurts which makes zero sense to me but it's what happens.  I realized today that Henry is hard as a rock and I'm not sure if that's a good thing.  A question I need to put on the list for Dr. C (I think that's what his nickname was).  And my veins? Let me just TELL you that they are disgusting.  The veins on my foot basically pop out to not normal levels and sometimes you can see the blue on my legs are chest.  It's really kinda gross.  I'm going to be SO happy when I do not have to take these blood thinners anymore and hopefully get my body back.


Onto other news.  A drove into the building I work in.  Seriously, went right through the brick.  Luckily I was not there as it was supposed to be my day off.  Of course when I heard though, I went to check it out.  The car was completely into the building and I really do not understand how someone could have done that.  The store was closed for the day, minus the pharmacy drive thru.  (Insert car making a new drive thru joke here).  I was called in at two to help put up the next day sale and seeing the damage inside from the car almost brought me to tears.  One of the nicest women I know works the section where the car went through and luckily went up to the front so she did not get injured.  But it's an act from above that she was not there at the time.  There was a HUGE hole for a while in the wall but they have bordered it up for now.  I don't know what is going to happen in the coming days or even weeks in regards to the hole.  But to say that it will be the topic of conversation for weeks to come is an understatement.


Also at work, we had a bake sale fundraiser.  I was the organizer if you use the term loosely because I basically just picked the day and hoped people would make something yummy.  And did they ever.  I don't know how much money we raised yesterday (it was supposed to be a two day fundraiser, but with the store closed, we didn't make too much money on Saturday) however I am so touched by how my coworkers came together and not only made things, but bought tons of treats throughout the day.  Seriously, I didn't think we were going to have anything, and then we end up with an overabundance of delicious treats.

In the next week I have my WONDERFUL ultra sound to see if Henry has gone down in size.  Given the fact I was told several different time periods for this whole thing, one of them was four to six months.  We are at month four, so let's hope we see some progress.