Monday, April 11, 2011

Huge crowd at BMT clinic this morning

I arrived a few minutes before my 10:00 appointment this morning and found the registration area full and quite a few people waiting in the lobby and I waited until about 11:15 before I was taken in for vitals and a blood draw. Then waited some more before they found an empty examination room where I waited again for Malene to come with a Velcade shot for me. She took my list of prescriptions and said that she would call pharmacy and have them ready when I was ready to leave, which of course they were not. I have been taking Lisinopril for about the last 2 months and only have 6 pills left so I asked Malene if I should continue taking it, which had been prescribed for me by Dr. Shah when I first saw her in April 2009 and Dr. Tricot put the Lisinopril on hold when he first designed my medication regime. Malene came back to tell me that Andrea had said yes I should continue to take it but she suggested that I take my blood pressure every morning and if the blood pressure goes down (it was 115/50 this morning) I might need to stop taking it. I take several meds whose purpose or probable effect are not known to me and the Lisinopril is one of these. Emma takes it every day and she has high blood pressure so I remain puzzled. Emma goes to aquazize once to 3 or 4 times a week and reports that her leg feels really good in the water and she wishes it would feel as good here at home. The visits last week were curtailed by the bad weather we have been having; continuous snow from Thursday morning until Sunday morning with at least 10 inches accumulated and probably 2 inches of water in that I think this been the snowiest period we have had all year.

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