Thursday, June 14, 2007
Something I can't understand
For some reason, it is the minor annoyances that I find the most troubling instead of the big life and death things. While I was at the hospital last Wednesday for my chemotherapy treatment, the port that they implanted in me didn't work the way they wanted it to. The whole thing behind the port is supposed to be a place where with one needle they can inject me full of cancer killing goodness and they can also take some blood out to test it. They were unable to take the blood out with the first try, and were forced to do it the other way. After the nurse took my blood, she put a cotton pad on it and taped it down. The tape they use is the stickiest stuff that I have ever dealt with in my memory. I have been going through all this medical stuff that long, so I don't consider myself an expert on medical supplies, but this could be the worst tape ever. It has been more than a week since I took the stuff off (8 days) and I still have a mark on my arm where it was. It looks almost like a burn scar. It is really weird. I never knew of tape that ripped off part of your skin. As if it isn't bad enough that I have cancer, now I have to worry about the tape they use. Maybe I should steal some of the tape and use it on some people. That would be funny.
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