Jane:
Queen Victoria would have had a fit if she knew that more than a century after her reign the words “breast” and leg” would be considered mild compared to the kinds of words we now hear on TV shows, movies, rap songs, you name it.
How strange the world is now.
Pet Scans aren’t nearly as scary to me as MRI’s. I had to have one for a rotator cuff tear recently and I thought they were pushing me into my own coffin. I guess I must be claustrophobic.
The tech said if I got scared to push the panic button but I almost lasted the whole time being OK. The tech first said just listen to this music on these earphones and you’ll be fine. So I did listen to the lovely music as I pushed the panic button and screamed in my head “let me OUT!”
As someone who is five months “clear” of cancer I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers for the months ahead for your health and recovery.
Bunches
Thank you so much for your thoughts.
My lymph nodes are clear and so is the breast tissue, at least as far as can be determined.
I suspect I’m going to have to do 8 sessions of chemo because the oncologist says it’s possible that some cancer cells could have disguised themselves and gotten through the barriers and aren’t recognized as cancer cells anymore.
So I figure if they’re getting all dressed up to go to a masquerade ball in my body, I’m all for chemo because it will ferret them out once and for all.
I’m happy to learn that you’re cancer free. That must be a tremendous relief.
I will keep you in my prayers for continued good news and thank you for your prayers too.
— Jane
PET scans don’t bother me as far as claustrophobia, it’s the noise!! All this whooshing, roaring, humming, buzzing going on just inches from you all around kinda freaked me out. The techs gave me a choice of music to listen to, but that couldn’t drown out the noise most times. And it took so long!
Our hospital is now strictly enforcing a policy that any woman 55 years (!!) or younger MUST have a pregnancy blood test before any radiation is administered for scans!! Aye Curumba! That now adds an additional hour or so to the overall test time. Crazy. Kinda p*ssed me off. Told the tech that there was NO WAY IN H*LL I could be pregnant, that it’s been so long for me that I didn’t think I knew how to do it any more! LOL
It was all in vain, still had to do the test. Guess what?
I wasn’t pregnant!
Got my hair cut Friday evening. It was just a half inch TOO SHORT to donate to Locks of Love! I burst into tears. I had so wanted something good to come of this. I was totally ok with getting my head shorn until then. I cried thru the whole deal. My stylist left a little on top. And she didn’t charge me, what a sweety. She knew what was going on, her mom had just been thru it, too. She’s fine now.
Afterwards my always smartypants daughter said: “Wow Mom, your roots are really showing now!”
; )