Tuesday, October 9, 2007
She's Movin' Up
Yesterday's blood draw is much like today's weather: Fair, sunny, warm, slightly breezy. In figurative terms, the transfusion and the added iron appear to be kicking ass and reminding Mom's body what it is to be less anemic. If you're interested in the numbers, here are her blood draw results for 10/8/07.
She walkered into the lab yesterday without a problem. The tech who was assigned to her remembered her from a recently previous blood draw in which Mom arrived in a wheelchair and cheered the change in mobility. During the actual draw, Mom worked herself into her usual feisty annoyance about all medical procedures and asked, with high impertinence, "how many more of these" she was going to have to endure.
I patiently reviewed the schedule with her and explained the reason for it.
She replied, "Well, I don't think it's necessary after today!"
The tech burst out laughing and said, "I'll bet you're right, Mrs. Hudson, but part of being alive is humoring everyone else's stupidity!"
Mom considered this a reasonable reply and settled down.
I could have kissed that tech...I'm not sure why I didn't! At any rate, her response has now been added to my "bag of caregiver tricks".
Later.
She walkered into the lab yesterday without a problem. The tech who was assigned to her remembered her from a recently previous blood draw in which Mom arrived in a wheelchair and cheered the change in mobility. During the actual draw, Mom worked herself into her usual feisty annoyance about all medical procedures and asked, with high impertinence, "how many more of these" she was going to have to endure.
I patiently reviewed the schedule with her and explained the reason for it.
She replied, "Well, I don't think it's necessary after today!"
The tech burst out laughing and said, "I'll bet you're right, Mrs. Hudson, but part of being alive is humoring everyone else's stupidity!"
Mom considered this a reasonable reply and settled down.
I could have kissed that tech...I'm not sure why I didn't! At any rate, her response has now been added to my "bag of caregiver tricks".
Later.
