Once a month, I have an early morning drive down to the UT Medical Cancer Center for my 30 minute infusion of Opdivo for my Melanoma. I mention early because if I don't get down there by 7:30/8:00 am then if it very difficult to find a parking place.... right beside the Cancer Center that is... I can drive over to the parking garage and take the elevator to the ground floor and walk over to the Cancer Center but it seen, at least by me, as an inconvenience.When I started these Chemo Treatments in 2007/2008, the parking lot in front of the Cancer Center stayed half full all day long...
When I finished today at 9:30 am, all the spaces were taken, people had parked along the curb where there was space, and there were a dozen cars circling around the lot waiting for people like me to leave. Since UT Medical Center is a public medical facility, I am sure that the increase is because many of the other private hospitals are refusing to care for these patients with limited or no insurance... and, I have noticed over the last 12 years or so that the caliber of the patients has decreased... in that the way they are dressed, their hygiene, and the way they talk including poor grammar.
Being an English Major in College, I notices these things...
A nurse asked me today, how long was I going to be getting these treatments and I replied, "until I die or they no longer work."
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