TAKING MY MORNING INFUSION THERAPY ON THE ROAD : AN APPOINTMENT WITH DR. RANDY MARTIN AT SUTTER ROSEVILLE...........

In order that I could be released home to OLOL rectory ten days ago, Mercy General Rehab Home Health Coordinators, had to find a qualified doctor  willing to agree to follow me during my forty seven home health care antibiotic infusion treatments, in the rectory through July 29th.  Turning to my primary team of personal physicians, they spoke with Dr. Randy Martin, of Sutter Roseville Medical Center, who has been a member of my team as Infectious Diseases Specialist, and has been following and treating me since the onset of Diabetes, and my charcot foot surgery, in 2002.  I am very pleased that he agreed to be the overseeing doctor, as we know each other well, and he is  very communicative, and committed to his patients.  In 2002, I also discovered in the first three weeks he was working with me after my first foot surgery and reconstruction, how highly respected and popular a doctor he is.  As I lay in my Sutter Roseville hospital back then during that four week period, his name was being called daily from early morning into the evening, at least a dozen times a day, six - and seven days a week !!!!!!!!!!!  My appointment with him this morning was at 9:45 am, during the time I do the morning infusion.  After having the volunteer connect me at 9 a.m., the taxi man was at the front door and so I took the portable pump and the infusion on the road to the Sutter Roseville Medical Center.  It worked fine until I arrived in Dr. Martin's waiting room, and it began alarming.  Once I attended to it, turning it off and on, a couple of time, and turning the antiobiotic cylinder slightly, it quieted, and all I saw to be different was a red light flashing, marked, Attention, instead of the usual green light flashing, when turned on, and the antiobiotic infusion in progress.  By the time I addressed it with Dr. Martin at the end of the appointment, the cylinder was empty and the treatment finished.  His nursing assistant who had charted my updated information into the computer, while awaiting the doctor, with whom I had a very pleasant conversation, then disconnected me, so that I journeyed back to the rectory with infusion #18, behind me.  Dr. Martin gave me a very positive report, saying the tests results are good and that this is, "the best and most chipper", he has seen me in quite some time.  I last saw him between November 2010 and January 2011.  Upon my return to the parish a full afternoon and early evening of parish and personal activity; - the parish hall plumbing problem, the Tongan funeral, Sunday homily preparation, organizing my medications dispenser for the week ahead, and finalizing preparations for the Memorial Service in Lincoln tomorrow, for my CSU-Sacramento classmate and A.S.I. / L.C.A. colleague and fraternity brother / friend,  Brother Chairman, Captain Brian Charles Welch, was before me.  As I sit here at the dining room table awaiting my evening antibiotic infusion connection, I am looking at a surprise delivery this afternoon to the rectory, sent to me - a bright, colorful, multi flowered, bouquet, from my decades long friend, from St. Robert's Parish in South Sacramento, Lu Richmond.  I have just called to thank her and Friday night volunteer, Patty Pennington has arrived, so let the infusion therapy proceed.  That's all for now.  Grateful For This Very Good Day And Those Who Have Made It So...........Fr.  Troy