Getting some blood today...maybe.....

It was amazing how fast my counts dropped yesterday or how I felt them drop. Friday my HCT was 31.5 and PLTs were 219 before getting the last dose of chemo and Tuesday I had dropped to HCT23.6 and PLTs 76. Monday I had an impromptu Margarita Party...went well and felt good throughout a little tired but that's the norm lately. Yesterday Tuesday AM got up sun was shinning so I worked out in the back yard and took a short walk top see what was happening on the other side of the back fence. They are removing the cottonwoods in order to put up a new fence. I have spent many a night wondering how I could poison them and make them go away. BY 11AM I knew something was changing. I gulped down a second 5 Hour Energy...something I never do and still felt like someone had turned on the tap and all my energy was running out of my body.
I was getting short of breath just going up stairs to the bathroom. I have found that when feeling like this it's best to take a Xanax ...it will keep you from crying or make you stop if started.
I had to call my son Scott to drive me to my appt. because I couldn't drive...I had cancelled his
offer earlier that morning because I felt so good.
So we go to the appt and counts have indeed dropped so I get scheduled for a transfusion for this morning Wednesday 9AM at the Prov Infusion Center at 9AM. Great .....Wonderful....
OOOOP's what about the insurance coverage..... Aetna's hours are 8-5 and it's 6pm now.
No help on their website because they don't have any "infusion" places listed in their list of providers. So I got up at 5:45 this morning to start calling Aetna to find out what to do.
They record me and I record them .....After an hour and 15 minutes on the phone ...5 phone calls to different representatives it all boiled down to I have to provide Aetna with Prov Infusion Center Tax ID before they can do anything even though they know they don't have a provider in the state and if I don't they will penalize my by charging out of network prices.
So...I'm waiting for Prov Administration to arrive to see if one of those kind people will give me the tax ID to Prov Infusion Center so I can get my transfusion. To be continued...........

UPDATE....
After spending over an hour on the phone ( started at 7am) with Aetna and being told by 3 Aetna representatives that there were no infusion clinics in town ...actually there was..the one I was going to. This info was found by the clinic 10 minutes after I arrived. Why Aetna wouldn't tell me this I don't know. Good thing I took notes while talking to Aetna and have all their names. I will be writing a letter to the insurance commissioner.