Another day at Sinai … the Valet team there sure is awesome and knows us well. They now complain when we take Heather's car, because they love to drive my manual transmission. I must admit, it's been great to see so many familiar faces each visit. Same with the woman at Registration who always seems to remember something we discussed from our last visit each time we see her.
Morning started at Nuclear Med for an IV and an injection for the bone scan later in the morning. Crazy I just had a port installed and yet I still had to have the IV placed in my hand (twice even, since the first one didn't work well). I'm done being a human pin cushion! For a girl who hates needles as much as she hates flying… this has become all too much of a norm.
CT exam was no biggie. Yet another GE machine. It went quick and was rather uneventful. Speaking with the tech, it seems the Barium didn't progress through my system as much as they would have liked, but it was good enough. We were in and out of there so fast we even had time to go home for a couple hours until the bone scan.
Bone scan was another GE machine, but this time one I'm a bit scared of. The machine was a Millenium VG unit and the part of the machine capturing images is nearly touching that part of your body. I tried to keep my eye closed so I wouldn't freak out when it was scanning my head, and thankfully didn't freak out when I did open them and the machine was so close I could have stuck my tongue out and touched it. As it proceeded down the other parts of my body, I was able to talk to Heather and watch the image capture on the monitor across the room. Not looking forward to having this test done again.
Both tests today and the Echo on Friday are meant to be baselines that they will compare later tests to later. The goal is to monitor how my body is handling the chemo, while also monitoring Vladimir's demise. Tomorrow we get the results and start talking about the chemo plans, which will start early next week. ~Liz
Morning started at Nuclear Med for an IV and an injection for the bone scan later in the morning. Crazy I just had a port installed and yet I still had to have the IV placed in my hand (twice even, since the first one didn't work well). I'm done being a human pin cushion! For a girl who hates needles as much as she hates flying… this has become all too much of a norm.
CT exam was no biggie. Yet another GE machine. It went quick and was rather uneventful. Speaking with the tech, it seems the Barium didn't progress through my system as much as they would have liked, but it was good enough. We were in and out of there so fast we even had time to go home for a couple hours until the bone scan.
Bone scan was another GE machine, but this time one I'm a bit scared of. The machine was a Millenium VG unit and the part of the machine capturing images is nearly touching that part of your body. I tried to keep my eye closed so I wouldn't freak out when it was scanning my head, and thankfully didn't freak out when I did open them and the machine was so close I could have stuck my tongue out and touched it. As it proceeded down the other parts of my body, I was able to talk to Heather and watch the image capture on the monitor across the room. Not looking forward to having this test done again.
Both tests today and the Echo on Friday are meant to be baselines that they will compare later tests to later. The goal is to monitor how my body is handling the chemo, while also monitoring Vladimir's demise. Tomorrow we get the results and start talking about the chemo plans, which will start early next week. ~Liz