[healthwork] plodding onward

[kaberett]

Item the first: I cannot emphasise enough the degree to which I would prefer to be properly trained to do my own subcutaneous injections competently than have to use the autoinjectors. I know it has been a long two days (see also item the second) but that notwithstanding the autoinjector aversion has increased to the point that I wound up getting A to actually press the trigger this time. (Absolutely could have done it myself. Am very tired; had no desire to spend multiple minutes stewing in ever greater concentrations of stress hormones while I worked myself up to it.)

Item the second: I have, for some time now, been waiting patiently for my in-the-flesh appointment with the local endometriosis specialist centre. It has been scheduled for the 23^rd of February for the better part of a year. I am therefore mildly alarmed to have been informed, yesterday, that I also get a phone appointment on the 10^th, which is -- notably -- a Saturday, i.e. not a time I am used to having routine NHS appointments. What's changed? No idea! But the MRI I had a couple of weeks ago is definitely on the list of candidates!

Item the third: I am, in my infinite wisdom, reading a lot of (non-fiction) books about trauma at the moment. They're very interesting! My brain is doing an excellent job of background cross-linking! A lot of things are going click that I could probably read back over entries here and discover that this is not the first time any of them have gone click! (Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good laugh.) But it's definitely also Context.

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[jesse_the_k]

May your clicks be useful!

[davidgillon]

I would prefer to be properly trained to do my own subcutaneous injections

Sympathy, we've got a variation of this with my mother, who is supposed to keep a specific injection handy in case of emergency. Do they give the 85yo who'll only ever need to use it in a crisis when she's likely to be badly brain-fogged an autoinjector? No, she's got syringes, needles, a vial of saline and another of powder.
Consultant: Get the nurse at your GP's surgery to teach you how to use it, they'll know all about it.
Nurse practitioners: What the hell is this? We've never heard of anything like this? Look, if you ever need to do it, bring her down here and we'll do it.

All bendy things crossed for useful phone appointments rather than other kinds of phone appointments.

[haggis]

I had to do injections like that during IVF (can't remember why but do remember the multistep process). But it seems a lot to do in a stressful situation and I wasn't 85!

[fyreharper]

Having Someone Else to press the button is indeed useful (I generally get to stab the housemate, because that is Easier than her doing it herself)

Appendages crossed re: Extra Appointment!

[chiasmata]

Endo! The gift that keeps on giving! Or taking! Or something! ❤️

[vass]

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[flippac]

The autoinjector conditioning you to have increasing trouble actually using it sounds like the kind of problem medics sometimes need spelling out to them in as many words :-( Especially as they're prone to assuming there'll always be somebody around...