THE LAST DOSE (CERTAINLY NOT THE LAST SUPPER)



THE LAST DOSE (CERTAINLY NOT THE LAST SUPPER)

This is a hastily written post so  sponsorship for charity for this one. Time is 18:37 on September 5.

In exactly one hour twenty three minutes from now, I shall, as instructed by the APN (not sure what this is but it refers to a specialist nurse or something) this morning, do the following:-

1)     Take off my roti-grotine patch which supply my body with bromocriptine, a dopamine agonist (will hyperlink this with explanatory notes next time). What a waste! This piece is supposed to last for 24 hours and I had replaced it only this morning at 9am. 

2)     Take my last supper………NO, NO, NO~ my last dose of mardopar (the artificial dopamine needed to replace what my crazy brain  has refused to manufacture).

3)     DO NOT, SHE REPEATED, DO NOT TAKE ANY MORE PD-RELATED MEDICATION UNTIL YOU RECEIVE THE GO AHEAD AT THE LABORATORY. YOU MUST BE THERE AT 8.30  SHARP. SURRENDER YOUR MEDICATION AND THE NURSE ON DUTY WILL GIVEN YOU A DOSAGE AT THE RIGHT TIME!

Yes, Madam. Er, is that am or pm? I was ignored.

4)     Bring along a sweater as the laboratory where the monitoring will take place can be pretty cold.

I had promised myself not to cheat – so I will not take it together with COMTAN or SELEGINE (which are supposed to prolong the efficacy of the mardopar by about 30%. Normally,  they are taken with the first and third dose only.)


Instruction from the son who will accompany me tomorrow:-

Be cool. Be calm. You can do it. Your body will not feel the same but you can do it, dad! We will leave at exactly 7.50 .

Yes, Sir. I wanted to ask the same question, “Er, is that am or pm?” But didn’t. The APN, I am sure, has conspired with him to ignore silly questions.

Instruction from the son to his brother who is part of the contingency plan if things do not go as planned – let us not go there. I solemnly promise to be on my best behavior.

By the time this  is published in my blog and posted on Facebook, the 1 hour 23 minutes could be over. It is barely 2.5 hours since my last dose and I am in zombie mode. 12 hours…….sigh


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