Ring Ring. May I please speak to Kent.... Pt 2

 As yesterday the orders went in today the calls were made.  Each and every time they said "May I speak with Kent".  What I really wanted to say was "well you called his phone number so don't you think then you could talk to him".  Instead, each time I told them it was me they were talking to.  The first call was for the PET-CT.  This is scheduled for June 10 which about 2 weeks from now.  As I stated yesterday this will look for Cancer activity in the Chest, Abdomen, & Pelvis.  The CT of the same area didn't find anything so we hope and pray this test also comes back clean.

The next call was for scheduling Chemo education.  This is scheduled for Friday afternoon.  At this point I'm thankful my office is closing at noon for the Holiday next Monday.  This appointment is like information overload.  Everything you would want to know about Chemo from the Drugs to their side effects to financial cost and and other resources that are available to you.  This really is your opportunity to find out everything you should know.  In fact they encourage you to have a couple people with you to be other pairs of eyes and ears.

Next up the call to schedule to Port placement.  Of course the oncologist was nice enough to mark this as urgent! Thanks so much for that.  Of course they had an opening tomorrow morning.  When I mentioned I had an appointment with my PCP they suggested I change that appointment since this was marked urgent.  So tomorrow against all my desire I am going to have my port put back in.  This means every 6 weeks or sooner I need to have the port accessed and or flushed.   I never really counted before however I do remember times I was done with Chemo, I had to make an appointment just to flush the port.  As you can tell I'm not excited to have the port back again but its part of the package and I was told if the Cancer came back I would need one put in again.  So here it is, They told me so!

The only other call I got was from the nurse for the port placement.  So as of tomorrow I will be Re-Ported.

Prayers are requested for nerves and anxiety as I go through this again.  Also continued prayers for the Dr. Transfer to happen quickly.

~Kent