Iron Infusion

Well, after some messing around Jessie has finally had her iron infusion.
We had to phone the hospital at 7am - yes, we could come, be here at 10.30am - 150km away.
We depart at 8am - bald tyres and all - my car is booked in for new tyres the same morning - Rick has to cancel for me - we arrive only to be told that there's been an emergency so we will have to phone later to see whether we can come back. There's a possibility we may have made the trip for nothing and that this would be repeated on another day.
We do a little shopping - phone back - yes, come back to the hospital now.
We arrive at the hospital, fill in the obligatory paperwork, find our way to the High Dependency Unit.
Sylvia, with whom I've been communicating for the last 2 days (over jackhammers in the background in our house) apologises that there will be another wait. More retrievals have happened and there are only six beds. These people are only human, we understand.
Finally at almost 2pm the drip goes in and the heart monitor is connected. There's a 1% risk of nasty reactions. Jessie decides she will not be the 1%.
The first 15 minutes pass slowly and anxiously. No reaction. The first hour passess. No reaction. They speed up the process and only check on Jessie every 30 minutes now. No reactions - only a very sore upper arm. They apply ice and say that they can slow down the dosage to relieve the pain. Jessie wants to get out of here ASAP so she tolerates the pain.
Around 4.30pm the iron is finished. The lovely Ghanaian Doctor discusses various aspects of Crohn's and drug possibilities. He knows about Infliximab and agrees that Jessie definitely qualifies.
The saline drip is inserted to flush through the iron. Tea arrives.
At 6pm we are out of there!
The car has been sitting in the boiling sun all day. No shade. We drive for 10-15 minutes before the air conditioning begins to work. We arrive home at 8pm to clean the bathroom - twice - to get rid of the grime and grit.
I clean the bathroom again today - to get rid of more grime. I vacuum the dust and dirt that has permeated the adjoining rooms and wash floors where dusty feet have trodden to get the concrete, tiles and dirt out of the house.
We have also learnt that having iron administered this way is much more efficient than tablets and injections - it's a much bigger dose and all of it gets into the bloodstream, so it should last several months. The only hassle is the length of time it takes to administer.