Fortunately this week seems to be going much better than last week, which is not a high bar to get over. I’m back to just feeling stupidly tired all the time but no nausea, chills or bladder spasms, so improvement?
This was the last of the first round of BCG treatments and I am very hopeful that, once I don’t get anther dose next Monday, I will start to recover a little bit of my energy. Of course now that I am (hopefully) a week away from starting to feel better I’ve finally managed to get some sort of light duty sorted out so I’m going to start working again tomorrow doing something for employee health, exactly what isn’t really clear. Never fear though, I do still intend to take full advantage of every minute of light duty I can get, even if I start feeling better immediately.
Fun story; I’ve had a great deal occupying my mind recently and had completely forgotten that, at some point in the semi-remote past, I signed up to take the CES-A exam. No, not Certified Excel Specialist in Accounting, Certified ECMO Specialist – Adult. (aside – what kind of special hell do people who create an initialism that contains an abbreviation go to?) This is a 100 question test developed by the American Society of ExtraCorporeal Technology and the International Board of Blood Management which is designed to demonstrate the subject’s knowledge and expertise in various aspects of extracorporeal life support. The test is at 7 am tomorrow, is supposedly very challenging, can’t be rescheduled, and I haven’t studied for it at all. I did, however, drop $400 for the privilege of taking this test so I am absolutely going to show up and take it anyway, I just don’t have very high hopes about passing.
Wish me luck.
Good luck. Sounds like you might be certifying in the use of a Ghostbusters spirit trap but I hope it goes well 🙂