T+140 (Wednesday) and I was back at LRI yet again, this time for only the mandatory weekly dressing of my Hickman Line. I wasn't booked in for a consultation and for bloods & observations, they did them anyway.
It's somewhat ironic that what they didn't do was the mandatory weekly line-dressing.
To be fair, on T+140 they did make a plan to remove the line on T+141 (yesterday). So two appointments in two days***. Why they couldn't have made that plan when I attended last week so that I could have had the line out on T+140 is a mystery.
While I was waiting for the staff to line up their ducks, I had a rummage through the contents of the information display, and found two Anthony Nolan info-cards. It was the first time I'd seen them, copies were not included in the info pack given to me pre-transplant:
You'll note their first bullet-point regarding the sharing of my donor's location, age and gender. Well, it's a tad late for that, they should have told me way back when the process started, before I posted this back in April.
*** "... two appointments in two days" becomes three appointments in three days when factoring in the fitting of a 72-hour heart monitor today at a different Leicester hospital, and rises to four in six days when considering the monitor removal appointment three days later. My carbon-footprint now looks like a KLETS sole with Blakey's Segs.
