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MARIPOSA
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4/27/09 That MRI made my bones and teeth chatter
What a crazy month this has been. My oncologist and I were discussing whatever “bullets†he had up his sleeve next for me to slow down the spread of the cancer. He choose to hold off a while on that new infusion bone treatment and sent me for an MRI instead. Well, I’ve never experienced such an emotional response to a test yet. I laid down on the bed and my first clue should have been the fact that the tech put ear plugs in my ears, then he also put kinda like head phones over that before he shot me down the pike. Oh, and he handed me a buzzer and said this is your panic button. I swear the noise that machine made sounded just like a jackhammer vibrating right next to my head. Very painfully loud and scary as H.
The outcome of the scan was confirmation that we should indeed skip the bone treatment infusion right now and try 10 separate rounds of radiation (one each day) in my T6 area of my spine. Hope it does some good. With my luck, this was scheduled to be done for the week that my daughter is coming to visit. Then the next week my sister from Wash. and I head out to Vegas for a visit with favorite aunt. I’m sure that I’ll be complete worn out, but very happy after those visits.
Does my writing sound a little spacey to you? I find myself often moving in slow motion, kinda like in a fog, and spending lots of time resting between every single task that I attempt. I’m not sure if I’m more mentally or physically exhausted most of the time. My husband has long ago given up asking me how come I got nothing done today, (cuz he understands how long my “to do†list is) instead as soon as he gets home he asks “what would you like to eat?â€Â.
Well, more next week, lets see if I can get all the projects completed that I wanted to before my daughter arrives!!
Hugs, Mariposa, Ronda
What a crazy month this has been. My oncologist and I were discussing whatever “bullets†he had up his sleeve next for me to slow down the spread of the cancer. He choose to hold off a while on that new infusion bone treatment and sent me for an MRI instead. Well, I’ve never experienced such an emotional response to a test yet. I laid down on the bed and my first clue should have been the fact that the tech put ear plugs in my ears, then he also put kinda like head phones over that before he shot me down the pike. Oh, and he handed me a buzzer and said this is your panic button. I swear the noise that machine made sounded just like a jackhammer vibrating right next to my head. Very painfully loud and scary as H.
The outcome of the scan was confirmation that we should indeed skip the bone treatment infusion right now and try 10 separate rounds of radiation (one each day) in my T6 area of my spine. Hope it does some good. With my luck, this was scheduled to be done for the week that my daughter is coming to visit. Then the next week my sister from Wash. and I head out to Vegas for a visit with favorite aunt. I’m sure that I’ll be complete worn out, but very happy after those visits.
Does my writing sound a little spacey to you? I find myself often moving in slow motion, kinda like in a fog, and spending lots of time resting between every single task that I attempt. I’m not sure if I’m more mentally or physically exhausted most of the time. My husband has long ago given up asking me how come I got nothing done today, (cuz he understands how long my “to do†list is) instead as soon as he gets home he asks “what would you like to eat?â€Â.
Well, more next week, lets see if I can get all the projects completed that I wanted to before my daughter arrives!!
Hugs, Mariposa, Ronda
