I had an eye check up the other day. My eyes are pretty good, but things have been getting a little fuzzy up close. I know vision changes can happen from myeloma, from chemotherapy to treat myeloma and because, I’m just getting older.
I told the chemo nurses my vision has changed since I started chemo four months ago now. They couldn’t tell me if it was related to the drugs or age, which is fair, because neither can I.
I went in to the Optometrists, had my eyeballs examined, read all the tiny letters and the result was that I still have 20/20 vision at a distance. About a foot away, I need some weak reading glasses. I’m not sure if I’ll bother yet, since I usually read around two feet away, which I don’t have a problem with (yet 🤞🏼). Guess I’m just getting a bit old, which is good in my situation.
In about two weeks, the doctors want to run a whole host of tests on me to check up on the myeloma in further depth (including, the dreaded bone marrow biopsy).
One of the other tests is a 24-hour urine test to check protein and creatinine clearance. I was already at the doctors for my eyes, so I went over to the lab to do the paperwork and get my pee jugs. That took about 10 minutes and I hopped in the car and went home.
When I got home, I was reading over the instructions for the test before I put it all away, since I’m not doing the test yet. I happened to look at the labels they stuck on the jug and saw the printed doctor’s label. Rrrrrr…. Somehow the lab tech printed out a doctor’s label that had the Optometrist’s name and doctor’s code on it. How is it even an option to have an optometrist’s name print for a urine test?
I promise you, I try and not micromanage so much. But I swear, I find myself having to micromanage my medical everything so much. Just a gripe, but I shouldn’t have to double-check the labels on my pee jugs!
Although, I couldn’t help it, almost immediately after I saw the optometrists name on the label, the sinister thought of handing over my pee jugs to the optometrists, did make me laugh 😂. Here you go….
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