Yes yogurt is a good thing, I had some this morning...thanks Diane! I always try to eat yogurt and take probiotics so my stomach doesnt get upset during a cleanout. Today I got up and out of the house to go see a movie...I forced myself to go and I felt a little better. I am going to start back at my internship a few hours a week starting on friday. The problem with the nausea is I keep thinking about foods that make me want to throw up...they just pop into my head and its awful because it makes my stomach turn...then I cant stop thinking about them!!
I wanted to respond to Lindsey-- I always get my PICCs placed in Interventional Radiology....for about 5 years now ever since the nurses started having a really hard time putting them in up on the floor. Now that I go to IR I cant imagine doing it the other way where they essentially are doing it blind. Plus I like the IR ones because they are placed high above my elbow which allows me to fully move my elbow. Every once in a while they will say something like "oh so and so is reallllly good" YEAH, RIGHT...thanks but no thanks, I've heard THAT a million times! Now I schedule the IR thing in advance and if I cant get an appt. right away I get a peripheral. They are hard to get but not as bad and usually you can get one to just last a day or two even though the medicine stings.
Another gross thing...today the nurse came to my house to draw blood (those home nurses are always bad) and she had to draw it out of the side of my wrist, right by the bone. it was disgusting...just another venting topic. I love when nurses or whoever are like "oh my, that vein is just hiding isn't it."
Its amazing because the phlebotomists at the hospital get it in two seconds, even though I have bad veins.
Caitlin 21 w CF
