Update on oggbashan's health

[mynameisben]

Boring, eh? Next time, bring a book with you to read. Preferably a long one. Earlier this month I had to take my wife to the hospital for a heart ablation. The whole procedure took 40 minutes (as I was told it would), but the doctors kept her there for eleven hours for "observation" after the procedure was finished. I didn't think to bring a book or even my reading glasses. I couldn't even read the crappy magazines they had in the waiting room. I was never so bored in my life. The worst part of it all is that the procedure didn't even fix the atrial fibrillation . She has to go back for a second ablation to be performed on the other side of her heart. Needless to say, I'll have my book and glasses with me.

I'm glad to hear your first procedure went so painlessly. Hang in there, Ogg. Wishing you the best of luck.

 

[THROBBS]

SHEESH! What a "pain", even if not "painful".

You have a tablet/laptop? More writing!

Keep up the fight!

 

[oggbashan]

Boring, eh? Next time, bring a book with you to read. Preferably a long one. Earlier this month I had to take my wife to the hospital for a heart ablation. The whole procedure took 40 minutes (as I was told it would), but the doctors kept her there for eleven hours for "observation" after the procedure was finished. I didn't think to bring a book or even my reading glasses. I couldn't even read the crappy magazines they had in the waiting room. I was never so bored in my life. The worst part of it all is that the procedure didn't even fix the atrial fibrillation . She has to go back for a second ablation to be performed on the other side of her heart. Needless to say, I'll have my book and glasses with me.

I'm glad to hear your first procedure went so painlessly. Hang in there, Ogg. Wishing you the best of luck.

I took my e-reader. Apart from all my published stories it has over 30,000 novels that have expired copyright because they are so old. I bought a DVD of them on eBay, uploaded them to my desktop and copied to the e-reader

I started to read a Victorian naval novel - a sort of precursor of Hornblower. It was very long winded - 2.5 pages or a thousand words to describe a calm sea. I had read 290 pages (about 600 screens) and still had another 350 pages to go. I don't think I'll bother.

 

[oggbashan]

SHEESH! What a "pain", even if not "painful".

You have a tablet/laptop? More writing!

Keep up the fight!

Writing might be difficult because one arm has a cannula fixed and I can't move it very far - and I might shock the nurses.

 

[TxRad]

Writing might be difficult because one arm has a cannula fixed and I can't move it very far - and I might shock the nurses.

I've had a few nurses shock me (Electrotherapy or something like that) but I can't remember ever shocking one back. I've thrill a few and confused others. Ya never know until ya try.

The next time you show up, wear one of those three pointed hats for finishing the naval novel. If you're bored, think how they must feel.

 

[Tricialen]

So very sorry Ogg....sending prayers and gentle hugs...and the very best wishes...

 

[THROBBS]

Writing might be difficult because one arm has a cannula fixed and I can't move it very far - and I might shock the nurses.

I suspect that you wouldn't mind shocking a nurse.

Perhaps reading is the thing.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Writing might be difficult because one arm has a cannula fixed and I can't move it very far - and I might shock the nurses.

This seems like a premise for a femdom story. Although I think you might have already written it.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Writing might be difficult because one arm has a cannula fixed and I can't move it very far - and I might shock the nurses.

Lol. Or you might meet a nurse like me, and she’ll be critiquing the heck out of your stories and offering to edit them and throwing in plot bunnies.

Speaking of which, one of my early readers who was very old and rather charming in his emails ended up in hospital. I was writing him in to one of my stories and sending him drafts as I wrote- he got too ill to work his laptop himself and his family were reading him his emails - I got a rather funny letter from his daughter asking me to stop - apparently I had rather shocked a lady who was coming in to read him stuff. But after he got out of hospital he picked up again.... it was one of those moments....

 

[BelleCanzuto]

Writing might be difficult because one arm has a cannula fixed and I can't move it very far - and I might shock the nurses.

Lol. Or you might meet a nurse like me, and she’ll be critiquing the heck out of your stories and offering to edit them and throwing in plot bunnies.

Speaking of which, one of my early readers who was very old and rather charming in his emails ended up in hospital. I was writing him in to one of my stories and sending him drafts as I wrote- he got too ill to work his laptop himself and his family were reading him his emails - I got a rather funny letter from his daughter asking me to stop - apparently I had rather shocked a lady who was coming in to read him stuff. But after he got out of hospital he picked up again.... it was one of those moments....

Yeah, most nurses I know are unshockable.

And, Ogg, at least you'd be writing things down instead of saying it to them (which they get a lot too)

I hope everything continues to go smoothly.

 

[SimonDoom]

Lol. Or you might meet a nurse like me, and she’ll be critiquing the heck out of your stories and offering to edit them and throwing in plot bunnies.

Speaking of which, one of my early readers who was very old and rather charming in his emails ended up in hospital. I was writing him in to one of my stories and sending him drafts as I wrote- he got too ill to work his laptop himself and his family were reading him his emails - I got a rather funny letter from his daughter asking me to stop - apparently I had rather shocked a lady who was coming in to read him stuff. But after he got out of hospital he picked up again.... it was one of those moments....

If I have need of hospital care at some point in the future I'll make sure to ask for a nurse like you.

 

[oggbashan]

Side-effects? What side-effects?

I was sent home with two sets of pills to combat nausea and sickness - if required. On my pre-assessment I had to sit through a 30 minute video of all the side-effects I might encounter.

So far? Nothing. I might have had a slight burning sensation when peeing but not more than after eating a fairly hot curry like Madras. Apart from that, nothing yet.

I have more chemo pills to take later today. Maybe I will have a reaction to them but at the moment I feel like a fraud.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

Of all the things one might fairly accuse you of, good sir, fraud is not one of them. For whatever reason, you have dodged a day of misery. That’s luck or grace, not fraud.

More prayers for you.

 

[DawnODay]

You have my prayers and best wishes!

 

[oggbashan]

Of all the things one might fairly accuse you of, good sir, fraud is not one of them. For whatever reason, you have dodged a day of misery. That’s luck or grace, not fraud.

More prayers for you.

Thanks to all for the prayers and good wishes. They are a great help in making feel I'm not facing this alone.

Lack of side-effects? It might be that apart from the Lambert-Eaton Myasthenic syndrome I am very fit for my age. Going up and down stairs at my house thirty times a day and using a walker instead of a motorised buggy probably helps. I have just returned from a supermarket shopping trip with my wife. They have motorised buggies and wheelchairs available but I won't use them. They would make me too lazy.

 

[mynameisben]

Going up and down stairs at my house thirty times a day and using a walker instead of a motorised buggy probably helps. I have just returned from a supermarket shopping trip with my wife. They have motorised buggies and wheelchairs available but I won't use them. They would make me too lazy.

You show 'em, Ogg!

"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." - Juan Ramón Jiménez

 

[vanmyers86]

Thanks to all for the prayers and good wishes. They are a great help in making feel I'm not facing this alone.

You have a lot of friends and fans, and we are just a few keystrokes away. Not only that, but we are all over the world! You have only to reach out.

Wishing you all good things - Van

 

[JamesMiehoff]

Just back from first session of chemotherapy.

Overall impression - boring.

I have more chemo pills to take later today. Maybe I will have a reaction to them but at the moment I feel like a fraud.

The thing those "training" films don't tell you is that everyone reacts differently to the meds. My father used to fall asleep when he was getting dosed. He rarely got sick from the chemo. Despite frequent warnings, he never went bald, although the radiation killed all the facial hair on one side. Everyone is different.

Everyone reacts to the boredom differently as well. Mom used to take Dad for his treatments and a few weeks in was talking to the duty nurse and somehow the subject turned to "what do most cancer patients want most?" The answer turned out to be hats. You lose most of the heat from your head, especially if you lose the hair. So she started crocheting hats for the patients to pass the time. By the time my father no longer needed to go back for checkups she had crocheted over 5,000 hats.

Boredom can be a good thing. Best wishes that you stay bored.

James

 

[MagicaPractica]

Sounds like you're starting starting strong.

 

[oggbashan]

So far so good. I have taken two sets of drugs yesterday with no side effects but this evening I have to start self-injecting one dose for five consecutive days.

I do not like pushing a needle into myself.

 

[TxRad]

So far so good. I have taken two sets of drugs yesterday with no side effects but this evening I have to start self-injecting one dose for five consecutive days.

I do not like pushing a needle into myself.

Needles for someone else, not a problem. Aim one at me and you had better let me sit down or you'll be picking by big ass up.

Good luck Ogg.

 

[Jada59]

So far so good. I have taken two sets of drugs yesterday with no side effects but this evening I have to start self-injecting one dose for five consecutive days.

I do not like pushing a needle into myself.

You'll get used to the needle. As a diabetic, I know this. Sending you more good vibes!

 

[oggbashan]

You'll used to the needle. As a diabetic, I know this. Sending you more good vibes!

I have to check blood sugar levels with a prick in the finger - no problem. But injecting into my stomach is different.

 

[oggbashan]

Needles for someone else, not a problem. Aim one at me and you had better let me sit down or you'll be picking by big ass up.

Good luck Ogg.

On Monday they had trouble finding a vein to put a cannula in. They had four attempts before they were successful but by the day afterwards i couldn't find the marks of the successful or unsuccessful attempts. They are obviously skilled at what they do - I'm not!

 

[Jada59]

I have to check blood sugar levels with a prick in the finger - no problem. But injecting into my stomach is different.

I have to take insulin and that's where I inject. I'd rather do that than a finger stick. But maybe that's just me.