Cancer Selfies

Wednesday April 05, 2023

So many IVs tried

Cycle 16, Day 1

Today was sort of a comedy of errors. I had some bloodwork done for my lithium, and the technician took two tries to get it right. No big deal, it's never happened to me before, but it happens. My PICC line was clotted, which has happened twice before, but this time it couldn't be cleared by running saline. It was taken care of and works properly again (the blue thing holds my take home chemo, which couldn't happen if it wasn't working) but that means they needed to run a temporary IV for the hospital administered chemo. Friends, it took four tries. I left with two IV bandages on each arm. But I got my treatment, and that's what matters.

A man with little hair takes a bathroom mirror selfie, a blue satchel with a clear line running out of it is on a strap around his neck, the room is cluttered

From the comments

James Petrosky: Bonus other bullshit I've been up to! The pinkish one is a long finished project, but the purple one is brand new this week. I'm very happy with it A photo taken in the dark of a decanter illuminated by magenta light and a vase illuminated by purple

James Petrosky: I also have an ashtray, which runs off batteries. Blue LEDs have a much higher voltage drop than red, so as the batteries run down the mix gets more and more red, and then dims in a really pleasing way. But that doesn't come out in a still photo.