bendamron's Cancer Blog

March 14, 2008

FULL OF FURY

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yesterday morning i was waiting in the downtown costco parking lot waiting for the doors to open. i managed to get myself in a little bind with angel’s fondaparinux (blood thinner shots) over the weekend. the prescriptions are written as three shots per pick up, and this round, pick up landed on a sunday and they are closed this day. i assume too much, but then again, safeway pharmacy is open seven days a week, i would think that suburban mega shops like this would be too. i called around to the bigger 24 hour walgreens and bartells, neither had the shots in stock. i figured so, this medicine is rare and too expensive to have laying around for the less than the occasional user. i was concerned that angel might throw a clot since this is a 24 hour needed basis, so i called the on call doctor. he said it’s not ideal that angel miss a night of it, but since she was going to the clinic in the morning it would be okay because she would receive a shot then. $mall contentions here, but i found out during my frantic search for this shot at various places that they charge about $8 more per three shots vs. costco. doesn’t seem like much if it were a one time shot, or several, but you add that up within a year, and it comes out to about $980 more per year. comparative shopping, a lesson my dad tried to teach me awholelotta times when i was growing up, and now at my old ass age it’s finally paying off ;).

angel’s infusion of the two meds and the chemo went in fine. i was there for a couple hours only, while toni stayed for the majority, so i could let the cleaners into our home (courtesy of lindsey, erik, julia and george who set this up for days while angel gets her treatment) so clean and with natural cleaning products no less. it was really nice to know everything was spic and span. so thankful, xoxo.

midway through the cleaning, i left to pick up susan from the train station, or the iron horse as she endearingly calls it! she’s here for the week to hang and help out, and to just be. she just wants to be in the same room with angel and all the time. right now, susan, toni and angel are hanging out talking about politics and the run between obama and hillary. angel’s voice is present, and they are all excited about obama! this feels so normal right now, it’s almost festive. angel is eating off a smorgasbord of food susan bought from pcc yesterday. oh, and what a sight! being and watching susan running down the isles, excited to see what was around the next corner, and how the cart was half filled after only the first isle. she was on a mission, and (sorry for the lame cliche) but she was a little kid in a candy store (she is a city slicker, living at ocean shores now) later on, after the cart was filled up, i told her, ‘close your eyes, no more, we are checking out now!’ she totally disobeyed my orders and grabbed several more things on the way to check out. damn her, but i didn’t put up too much od a fight ;). after nearly half a months rent of a 2br 1ba (no joke!) of the bill, we left for home. yummy. when angel arrived, it was a relief, she looked so good, and it is another treatment closer to getting better.

Posted on March 14, 2008 at 6:34:51 PM by angel & ben ( FULL OF FURY, 0 comments)