Friday Flashback and an update.

 I know International Box Day was 16th July and we are 6 weeks late with it but I saw it when I was looking for a Friday Flashback. Sorry, there is no puzzle or art this week, and that I have not been visiting, but this has been the week from hell. This is a rushed post as I never miss a Friday flashback.

There will be an update at the end. I will try and keep it short, but it probably end up longer than intended.

We were excited when we heard that Zoolatry were having International Box Day today cuz we both like boxes, duzn't everycat? We helped mum find all the photos on all her files so she could get our post ready in plenty of time. Then it nearly didn't happen when the compooter died, but mum looked through all her back up flash drives and we got the photos onto the laptop instead.

We've got a tattle tail about mum and the laptop before you look at our box photos. Mum usually uses the laptop on the sofa or at the table but because the PC isn't working, she put it on the compooter desk. She went to print something this morning and we heard her yell 'I DON'T BELIEVE IT!! NOW THE LAPTOP WON'T WORK!' Do you know what silly mum did? She pulled out the shelf with the PC keyboard and was typing on there, then she wondered why no words were coming up on the laptop. You would think she would learn after the first time wouldn't you, but oh no, she did it time and time again.
Anyway, that's enough of that. Here are our box pictures.


Flynn: Not long after we started blogging, Grr, Midnight and Cocoa had a competition and we won. Part of our purrize was this great box with shreddy paper in.

I love this box and I could smell my girlcat furrend Grr in it. It made the bestest bed.

I have even still got it now. When I sleep in it I dream of Grr.

Eric: I wanted to see what was so great about the box so I thought I would try it. I think it is a bit small for me.

Flynn: This is another good box but I don't have it any more.

It was very comfy though.

Eric: I seem to have a problem finding a box to fit me.

They all seem to have shrunk.

No, no success with this one either.

At last! A box I can move around in!

And another one. What do you mean, it's not a box? It's lovely and comfy with the washing in the bottom. If I close my eyes I can purrtend it is a box.

When I was younger and smaller I used to fit in all sorts of boxes.

Flynn: Bet you wouldn't fit in this box Eric.

This is a nice big box. It's where our Christmas tree lives when it's not Christmas.

Eric: You're right! It's big enough for two.

Now the update:

This has been the week from hell. Sunday is always a bad day, Fridays and Saturdays are good. On Sunday I think I can do more than I can and then I crash! Monday is "Diarrhoea Day" but this week wasn't too bad. Tuesday was a good day. I had bloods done in the morning, then later we went out for lunch to encourage me to eat. We got home and 5pm I sat down to watch a favourite quiz show and that is when everything went pear shaped. The phone rang and it was one of the doctors from our family surgery. She told me my potassium and magnesium levels were dangerously low and low magnesium can trigger heart attacks. She told me I had to go to the Same Day Emergency Care at the hospital and that they were expecting me.

I had been telling the surgery for weeks that I had a problem wiyh my potassium levels which had shown up in bloods I had done before I started chemo, and until I had an annual review last week and it was showing there they took no notice of what I was saying. The bloods for my review were added to the chemo form, so of course they got all the results.

I think that when they saw for themselves that what I had been telling them was right they panicked!

When I got to the hospital they said my magnesium was dangerously low and put me right on a magnesium infusion and hear monitor. I hope I have got this right, the levels for magnesium should be at least 1.2 and mine were 0.25. Then I had a litre of potassium by infusion, then took my bloods again which showed the levels were still too low.

I had to stay in overnight and have two more infusions of 500ml magnesium a1000 ml potassium, then another blood test. Levels were still too low so had to have two more infusions in the afternoon and another blood test. 

 They wanted me to stay overnight again but I told them I couldn't as I had an appointment with my family doctor to sort out some meds. It had taken me so long to get that appointment that there was no way I was cancelling it. I had chemotherapy at noon also, and as I had already missed one a couple of weeks ago due being too run down to have it I wasn't prepared to miss another one. They weren't very happy about me going home but agreed to send the final bloods to chemotherapy and if necessary they would give me another infusion there. The results were improved so no more infusions were needed and I just had my normal chemo infusions. altogether I had 5.5 litres of fluids by infusion in 26 hours.

I was given a new prescription for a diuretic which can cause increased potassium. That is one side effect that will be good for me. My usual diuretics have been reduced from 3 pills to one so we will see how it goes.

Scan today (Friday) to see how the chemo is working, so wish me luck with that, then bloods next Tuesday which hopefully will still show enough magnesium and potassium.

Well that has been my less than wonderful week. I am sorry, I intended to try and keep it short but knew I would have trouble with that!

I am joining MessyMimi for the blog hop.