The needle they use is about the size of a venflon so quite big but the nurse got in easily after cleaning his arm for like 40 seconds, they don't even take that long cleaning my port before it's accessed! It didn't take very long for his blood to fill the bag compared to other people, less than 10 minutes I'd say. Then afterwards he got a nice big dressing and some round thing that they tape over the hole whilst applying pressure, I assume it's to try stop bruising. Jeez when ever I've had needles I'm lucky if I get offered a plaster..! Then he got to have a drink and some biscuits. Apparently he can give blood every 4 months, not sure if he is planning to do that or not. I wish I could give blood but it's not possible since I have CF, as well as being on antibiotics all the time.
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Yesterday was Mothers day and since I am feeling quite well at the moment we had my Mum and Nana round to ours for Sunday lunch, there were 7 of us in total. It was cosy around the table but never mind! I had the left overs in a sandwich today, ummm Sunday dinner sandwich!!
The only complaint I have CF wise at the moment is I keep feeling really tired afternoon/evening time and falling asleep. Last night I fell asleep for about 30 minutes in a uncomfortable position on the sofa, not sure how I managed to nod off! I didn't go the gym at all last week as I have naps instead. I don't really understand it as I am finding it difficult to sleep in on a morning past 8-8.30am, surely if I was tired I would sleep in until later? Who knows?!
Alfie has being having some toilet problems, in that he keeps weeing in the kitchen on a night even though there is a puppy pad down for him (which he doesn't use very often) and we spray the areas where he wees with a repellent. Therefore when I wake up during the night I am getting up once or twice and letting him outside, it seems to be doing the trick however I feel like we have a puppy again not a dog that is nearly 5 years old! It seems to be working though so I shall keep doing it for the sake of our curtains!
I have being taking Alfie to dog classes every week as part of his behavioural training, mainly to try help him behave better with other dogs and for the trainer to see how he is progressing. Last week we had to get our dog to sit on some cardboard, then walk over some poles, sit on some bubble wrap, walk on a plank of wood that was like a sea saw, walk over some hoops and sit on some more cardboard, the aim was to try get them used to obeying commands on different textures. Alfie was really good at it compared to the other dogs and he is a nervous dog, so I was very happy with him.
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