Pre-testing days – 2

So Day two was a lot less activity. Which was a little bit of a let down because the husband and me are so active (not…)

Anyways

Just two things all day. The Vein check was just a tour of the facility where I would have the stem cell harvest, because one look at my arm and the nurse said (and I quote) “you will need a temp catheter placed in your jugular. your veins are too small” I could have told her that over the phone. But she wanted to see me. Makes me feel important.

Then we met with Dr. Burt and only discussed possible risks of doing the stem cell. Stuff like “You might die”. Nothing too concerning  🙂

Oh and there was a math test. Where you add the last two numbers in a series thrown at you by an audio CD. The numbers were all 1-9 so you’d think it was easy. That’s what I thought too. I aced the practice test. But the real tests were a lot more challenging than I imagined. Imagine this series : 1,5,9,4. The numbers are read out at 3 second intervals. I have to keep saying the answers: 6(1+5), 14(5+9), 13(9+4). Easy enough right?

Except my answers were : 6(1+5), 15(6+9), 19(15+4), uh what?

Yes it is hard to not remember the last sum you cleverly totaled but only remember what the CD said last. But this was my baseline test. So no Pass/Fail. Small satisfactions.

That was it for the day. Now I have a 5 day break to stress about the needle to be put in the jugular next week. And I am good at stressing. I’ll surely ace that.