Day 14 - Dressing the leg wounds

Last night was a bad night. I was up many times, and each time, I was up for about a half an hour.
While I was up I would use my cell phone and google whatever was on my mind. This morning I checked the history of what I had googled.
First was compression stocking discomfort, second was size of pillow to put between your knees to relieve stress on the hips while sleeping, third was which stretches to do when the back wakes you up in the middle of the night, and fourth was about Angiosarcoma. Four different things keeping me awake.

It was a cool, cloudy day, and Maddie and I walked to the mall. We did some shopping and walked back. 5.8 KMs total.

Back at home we had super healthy smoothies, and a super healthy salad.

The house that Maddie stays in, is being sold, so Maddie will be moving soon. Where, we don't know.

We then decided to tackle the changing of the wound dressing on my leg. Since I am now using a compression stocking, instead of wrapping the leg, it is far simpler, but much more difficult. We thought about the problem of getting the stocking on, and decided to first put on a leg from a woman's pantyhose. I think that made it much easier. The compression stocking slides over the nylon stocking.

We removed the old stocking, and the old bandages. Lots of gunge and blood. She cleaned the wounds, and applied a thick gel, that the wound care lady had given us.
We then positioned the new bandages, and then put tape all around the bandage to make sure no liquids would leak out. Then we put on the pantyhose stocking and then fought with the compression stocking for about 15 minutes, till it was on.
I think we did good. Doing that all by myself would have been a mission of note. I am SO glad Maddie was there to help.

The Oncology office called saying they had talked to the Pathology Lab, and the Lab was going to redo the biopsy report to include the proper codes. I feel I should be in Pretoria, not here on holiday with my girlfriend.

I feel I am not being proactive. I am waiting for the system to crawl along. I should be fighting this cancer, not just being a passenger on the cancer ride.
My good friend from Texas says that I should have just paid cash for the PET/CT scan and got it done. Then claim from the medical aid. If they were going to approve it, then they would also honor the claim.
 So tomorrow morning early I'll call the Medical Aid office and see if my Medical Aid actually works like that. Maybe I can move things quicker if I pay cash for everything, then claim the money back from the medical aid, instead of waiting for approval first. Then maybe I'll call the PET/CT scan place, and get a booking.

I will reluctantly also book a bus ticket for tomorrow evening back to Pretoria. I really hate leaving Maddie. These last few days may be the last "normal" days we will ever have together. That makes me sad.

Another very wise friend in Texas, says that the things that make you sad, are the things you will miss the most. These are probably times, you were the happiest. So when sadness strikes, I just need to turn it around, into being a remembrance of a happy, pleasant time, and re-live that time again.
That will be easier said, than done.