h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I kinda got locked out for a few days... but eventually got it sorted, thanks to E-mails with tptb - OK I'd have gotten round to doing that sooner, but... I was kinda busy.. ou know... - its a hrd life being a submissive... not all fun and games... I had... 'work' to do innit.

err... had another testosterone injection, can't recall if that gotten into a journal entry already or not...

the nurse who turns me on, AKA Nurse Julia, wasn't there. and.

OK. so I got antoher nurse, also a 'j', this one Nurse Jackie. She turns me on too

Because we'd hate to be biniary or stuck in our ways, this time I had the injection into my left side, so lay on my right...

Another nurse, who's name I forget, took blood from my right arm, whilst nurse Jackie injected testosterone into my left hip/buttock.

They had to tell me they'd finished, I hadn't noticed either needle/injection this time so, this is what its like to be a pin-cushion


that was... on a Thursday... probably about the one just gone I guess.. but I may have already mentioned that.

anyhow.

I tiedied up my wardrobe. and got rid of some clothes.

and, now, cept for a couple pairs of jeans, there isn't a scrap of male clothing left in my wardrobe I've a few shirts, I've kept back, folded in the top box, mainly as they'r e warm, or just decent and not warn out yet, so getting rid of them would seem a bit silly

a few new items arrived... some more beaded tops, buttoned long sleeve teeshit tunic type things, a new gorgeous green tunic/dress and, a zip top ting which is rather nice... and, the leather trousers, of course and, some other stuff too I think. my wardrobe is... - so colourful! pinks, purples, stripes, candy strips, teal, turquoise, red, greens, light blues, some browns and blacks and regular blue stuff, and things, but... so odd for me

William's been here the last two days, went home today. cooked us a massiv echili last night, and I've got leftovers of that to eat this evening, and probably tomorrow night too - was gona cook goat, but didn't have time to plan ahead and get it marinating in the fridge beforehand

Got an unexpected phonecall today, from the hospital, from patient laison, er leiason, yeh, pals innit.

following up on the Email and phonecall I made to them. in August.
they work on geological timescale apparently.
They seemed a little supprised I'd not yet been contacted by anyone from oncology/lymphoma team, and so I had to tell them now, no, I'd not... and yes, I'd still kinda like to have some feedback regarding the question of if anyone's followed up on the discharge leter from the end of January, and looked at the possible brain lymphoma which it might have shown... communication is not their strong point...

was told I'd get a phone call.back... not happened yet
also paointed out the main problem is I don't have a specialist nurse as a single point of contact, and perhaps soemthign will be done aobut that; mind, on at least two occasions people have said something would be odne about that.

kinda need to speak to such a point of contact ATM: having just had this inefeciton, which I've still got, in teh armpit, adn I'm due to have the PET end of Nov, to get a new 'starting' point, scan, as it were, of how my nodes look now, - the scan was for the end of nov, so the last infection would have cleared by then, and the nodes not be enlarged due to infection, and now, I've this second infection, and of course no one at the hospital knows about it, as I got it seen by my GP. sort of thing, in fect, exactly what I shoudl be telling my specialist nurse... if I had one - would be pointless, maybe diagnostically dangerous in the long-term, to do this PET scan, if there is likely to be inflamation/enlargement of the nodes, due to this current infection

hungry, getting cold here now, but was quite warm earlier (very warm out last night I thought)

think I'll rehead some chilli soon, perhaps with some chips to go with it tonight, or pasta, or rice I guess...

Traveller in Time having to scroll up the font +3 points /o^o\
"Strength to you, keep up the fun part of the hospital visits

in fighting the next infection before the PET scan arrives. . . . a PET scan should involve some pets

Is the patient liaison also a professional institution? (overhere it would be volunteer ex-patients) "

yeh; the patient leiason is professional staff, employed by the hospital, but who're indepedant, from any given department, but... well the one here don't seem much good; although, of course, it might be they are doing their job; and consultants, nurses they contact, for me, on my behalf, are then just telling the PALS people, "yes, we'll phone 2legs this afternoon and let him know", and then, they fail to do so...

Most hospital visits are fun. if one only looks at them in the right angle/light afterall.... injections, etc, its... just another way to get an endorphin boost

sadly the PET scan doesn't inolve any pets... only radioactive fructose injection and a CT scanner - on the positive side, I useually get a nap whilst I'm in the scanner - which often terrifys the opperator of the scanner, as they dont' realise I'm asleep, and just suddenly notice their patient is unresponsive to questions etc (nearly terrified the MRI scanner operative last time as I fell asleep... something which oughta be impossible in a machein that* loud)

I fell asleep several times while getting an MRI. Also while in the "gantry" for my proton therapy (with the mask, but mine was smaller than yours, just my face was masked, not shoulders.)

I should note though that I wasn't unresponsive. I wake easily. Too easily.

Oh. I'm weird when asleep. - I recall both occasions in the MRI of my Pituitary (the last one I had), where the opperative 'checked in' with me - asked me if I was OK; the first time I replied, the second time I didn't, as I guess I was aleep, but, even when asleep, I'm fully aware of things goign on around me; I am, example, aware of hearing the van pull up outside my bedroom window, each morning before 5 AM (think it picked someone up for work); of course soemtimes I am* sitll awake at 5 AM thanks to insomnia, other times I'm asleep; I often find it difficult to kno if I have slept, as I'm aware of things whilst asleep

My face mask for the radiation was pretty big! - its sitting on the bed, in teh spare room now; staring down the coordiro straight at the bathroom door!; so its directly ahead of you as you come out of the bathroom

As I've had a hair cut now; all my 'chemotherapy ribbons' (plus radiation ones), are now on my face mask I oughta dig out an old pair of specs to put on it too just to freak everyone out, and put a hat on it - must get organised want to have it on the wall in teh front room at some point - probably with a feather boa of course on it - sometimes I wear it, to meditate in. I find it really relaxing. - yeh, I never clamed to be normal yoknow....

I think I found it easier falling asleep in the CT as the bench was solid, and metal so cold, the MRI last time had a padded 'table' to lay on!; I think maybe because it was the maternity MRI scanner (seriously, yeh, just to cconvince me I've changed sex, whilst I'm hormonally female they put me in the maternity dept scanner), so maybe that was why it was padded... the MRI scanner noises are cool though, I have some on my MP3 player though not exactly teh e same; they're recorded in teh room, of course, not inside the scanner, I sometimes meditate whilst having them loud on a loop via headphones of course.