He had a 2d-echo of his heart. We had to wait for a while until it was his turn. We almost were late for his next appointment, a pulmonary function test. After that we headed back to the hotel for a late breakfast and to take a break until our next appointment at 4:30 with Dr. Burt.
As soon as we arrived at our room, Nico received a call from Kim Y. (Dr. Burt's nurse) to come earlier at 2pm. That gave us just a little over 1h until we had to go back to the hospital. Enough time for me to strap the GoPro on Nico's scooter. We filmed on the way, mostly me walking in front of Nico. I will have to work on the footage a bit before I can add it to the blog.
Our meeting with Dr. Burt was very short. He was surprised to see us back so soon. Although Nico's test results from the pulmonary function test weren't in yet, he gave Nico the all clear to start mobilization on Monday, August 4. Did we have any questions for him? We both could not think of anything and off he went....
We spend some time with Kim, going over proceedings for the next 2 weeks. She also collected all study questionnaires Nico had to fill out even he is being treated off study. Forms had to be signed and then she took Nico for some more tests and sent me to the waiting room. Nico was subjected to the 9-Hole Peg test and the PASAT (basically oral math) test. He came back and said I'm feeling pretty stupid right now. I always thought I'm fairly good at math. My left hand is also very bad with picking up and putting small things in little holes. We got a good laugh out of that.
On our way back to the hotel we stopped at Trader Joe's again to pickup some more food supplies.
We are done with all the testing now and can make some plans what to do with our free time for the rest of the week.
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| Walking down W Erie St. |
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| Monster McDonald's (across Hard Rock Cafe) |
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| Mexican Restaurant (W Ontario St, across from Trader Joes) |
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| Hard Rock Cafe (N Clark St and W Ontario St) |
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| Irish Pub (across the Aloft) |
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