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My hand bruised so much from yesterday’s bloodwork (the typical veins wouldn’t work, so the phlebotomists had to pull it from the veins on the top of my left hand) that my psychiatrist asked me today if I had been punching walls recently lol. Yay blood thinners! #outpatientlife
Happy #NationalDoctorsDay!! 🧑🏼⚕️🥼🩺 I am beyond grateful to have had (and still have) such a wonderful care team during all my 2023 medical adventures. Thank you @TuftsMedicalCtr and @HolyFamilyHosp doctors for keeping me breathing, alive, and upright!! 🫶🏻🫀#outpatientlife
Huge thanks to my team at @TuftsMedicalCtr, @SYseult, @JAdamsRD, @RosemaryAubry, and so many others who kept me calm, sane, and well-taken care of during all my heart surgery adventures and throughout recovery. We keep moving on!! 💪🏻🫀#outpatientlife #zipperclub #heartsurgery
Happy Zipper Day to me! I have officially hit the one-year anniversary of my heart surgery! Things are significantly better now, but there are still weird (but normal) sensations that open heart surgery patients understand. 🫀#outpatientlife #zipperclub
Ah, I’m now at the start of my Tufts MC and heart surgery anniversaries. Gah. (Admission anniversary today, surgery anniversary in two days, plenty of others after that.) So imma take a walk later and just breathe since I couldn’t do that a year ago. 😮💨🫀#outpatientlife
Other than the holiday break, this is the first Friday I haven’t worked since… Sept(!) bc of all my hospital appts. (My normal work schedule gives me every other Friday off.) It’s a very odd/nice feeling to know I only have to go to Boston for therapy today. 😯 #outpatientlife
First one-year anniversary of several through the end of April. A year ago, I came down with the worst case of food poisoning ever, and that started me on this trek of the medical saga that was 2023. Yay! 😬 #outpatientlife
If there’s one thing I consistently miss about being in-patient at Tufts, it’s the fresh fruit I had every day I was there. Anytime I get a fruit cup at a restaurant, I’m almost always disappointed. Not that it’s bad, but it’s definitely a different quality. 🫀 #outpatientlife
I am officially a cardiac rehab graduate. Today was my last session. I’m leaving far stronger than I was four months ago, so I’m grateful for that and all the work my team put in with me, but it’s definitely bittersweet. I’ll miss seeing them every week. 😢 💪🏻🫀 #outpatientlife
Happiness is getting to remove the small heart monitor. It hasn’t been bad to wear, but it itches like crazy. I won’t miss it. #outpatientlife 🫀
New medical friend sticking around with me for the next two weeks (small heart monitor). #outpatientlife 🫀
Thematically on point gifts as always from my BFF @JAdamsRD #outpatientlife #zipperclub 🫀🥹
I’m twitching a little from today’s daily prompt. It’s good to review the positive things, but damn, so much of this year was just surviving. Goal for 2024: time to LIVE. 💪🏻🫀#outpatientlife
It’s both good and bad when all of my meds refill during the same week. Convenient in one trip to pick them up. But then I’m walking out of CVS with a very large bag of scripts and odd looks from the pharmacists. Yes, I’m a little broken… but we survive. 🙃🫀💪🏻 #outpatientlife
Another positive hospital appointment day. Full lung function has been restored! Minimal lung scarring for all my ordeals. I’m graduating from the Post ICU Clinic bc of all the positive progress in the last 6(!) months! One more hurdle down! @TuftsMedicalCtr #outpatientlife 🫀🫁
Now for a fun day of allergy testing at a new hospital (I get to explore Mass Gen) to try to determine what in the echo contrast dye caused my anaphylaxis in April. Nope, I’m not anxious today at alllll… not a bit. Nope. 😬 #outpatientlife
Looking at all the cool Halloween decorations in Beacon Hill after my Tufts appointment, and I got 5 miles of walking in! Couldn’t do that a few months ago! Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻 #BostonHalloween #outpatientlife
Ngl, starting to get a little worn down by all the running around to doctor’s appointments and cardiac rehab, since almost nothing is local. Just have to make it through the end of the year, then the majority of the appointments drop off. 😰 #OutpatientLife 🫀❤️🩹
Ah… *looks at date* I think I know why my anxiety has been peaked the last few days. It’s been six months since I was taken to Tufts and had my emergency valve replacement. Yeah, that would do it. 😬 #OutpatientLife 🫀❤️🩹
Big shoutout to @kuzuryuio, @teacuppity, @juwei_, and @hiyumiNAO for all of their music. All your songs make me smile (even the emotional damage ones, IFYKYK), and they're perfect for giving me space from all the anxiety/trauma things. So, much thanks. 🙏🏼 🎶#OutpatientLife 🫀