PET Scan
Hey girls,
Hope you are all doing okay. I have been off the radar for a few days.
My PET scan was very doable so not as scary as I thought.
You arrive where and are shown to a cubicle to remove all metal bits like in bra straps, jewelry like ear nose and tongue piercing and and the nipple one hee hee just joking......
Then a nurse puts a bung in your arm when she can eventually find a vein. I told her my veins go in to hiding now as they think they are going to get more chemo.
Once bung is in my arm I am shown to this lovely lil cubicle with a very comfy padded heated chair (better than the chemo chairs by far).
They then feed a tube thru a wall from a machine outside (obviously to big a machine to fit in the cubicle with me) but my mind was running away with me and I was thinking it's because it is such lethal stuff it can't be in the same room - durr wrong!!!
Anyway they tell me to rest quietly for one whole hour (it's not like I can go dancing with this machine attached to my arm is it?). I sit back and enjoy the one whole hour of chilling, doing nothing and not feeling guilty about it. Could have done with some chocolates and soft music and wine but guess that would have blown the fasting from midnight the night before I reckon.
One beautiful blissful hour passes (make sure you have nice warm blankets to cover your feet right up to your neck cause your back is warm from the chair but the front gets freezing. I get told to hop up (yeah sure this old crock is just going to hop up after spending an hour sitting in a chair - give the bones time to warm up again please. Off to the toilet to empty the bladder (ahhhhhhh relief) then into the big bad machine room. Lay down on hard slab of a bed with thing stuck under your legs (my lovely lil nurse was so sweet this time and not the same sour puss as before who gets pleasure out of pain with putting bungs in arms) hee hee just joking. Then I lay down with pillow just resting on forehead and put arms above my head. The big bad machine isn't tooooo bad, better than MRI's. You go up and in and come out the other side, it isn't so invasive and sitting on your face like MRI and there is a hole at other end with lovely light coming thru.
No horrible hideous noises of the MRI just peace so once again I close my eyes and chill for another 20-30 mins. Then hop up with help of chain and handle from roof as granma been laying flat on a board for too long. Pop in to other lil cubicle where I get dressed and can then make myself a coffee or two as I haven't had my 2-3 for the morning yet and some lovely sandwhiches.
Doc finally comes in and askes a few non descript questions and then says okay see you later. Ummmm sorry but what is the result - ohhhh that you have to wait to see your chemo onc on Thursday mmmmmmm great more waiting but I just take that in my stride now cause waiting comes with the territory as we all know. So off I go all rested up and decide just to keep myself very busy between then and my results day. Oh well just as well I have rested up then isn't it.So definitely doable with guilt free chill time and coffee and sandwhiches to boot. I will let you know the results once I am in the know after Thursday.
I have myself all psyched up now that it will be all good, only breast lymphodema and no sighting of the big C anywhere else. So if they try to tell me different I won't have a bar of it.
Onwards and upwards girls.
Lots of love always, Mich xoxoxoxo
