Yesterday, I went in for bones scan, & was grateful to find they were using a scanner that could do a CT Scan (looked like a modified CT Scan machine), Bone Scan & PET Scan which took only a fraction of the time it usually takes & with one machine, instead of 3. They also injected a stronger Isotope (to make me glow for the machines) & I only had to wait one hour after the injection, instead of 3 & it was supposed to leave the body quicker. The people who work there really took care of me - you could tell they like their jobs and genuinely care about the people they inject and scan :-)

When it was time for the scanning, I had to lay on my back, place my head in a special device to keep it steady & put my hands at my sides & they strapped me in, because the table area lifted to go into the scanner & if the straps wouldn't have been around me, my arms would have been hanging down & meeting the machine, in a not to pleasant or safe way, because that part of the table wasn't there anymore.

As I started to enter, the opening seems smaller than a CT scanner & at first, I couldn't tell if it was going to be like a cave & my whole body would be in a small confined space, or as turned out, it seemed just a little longer thank a CT Scanner, so I only had a short distance to make it through each time. When I first when in it made a loud noise that reminded of a sound I heard on the movie Contact (with Jodie Foster), so to calm down I had my eyes closed & thought about being out in space, playing amongst the stars. When I was there in my mind, I thought of my son, Joshua, being there too (for anyone new to my blog, Joshua is my 16 year old son, who passed on September 18, 2008, after 3 years with bone cancer & a recurrence) So I was able to escape the machine & any fears I had about it , & play with my son around the stars :-)

As I was going back and forth - when my head was on the other side of the machine I saw that some times it the letters "CT" were highlighted & other times the letters PET were, so I knew that I was getting more that just a bone scan. Very cool :-)

I got to see the radiologist report, today (still haven't seen the doctor's notes) Some of the radiologist findings included that the seeming cancer in the sternum seems to be a bit bigger than in September & what seems to be cancer in the T-9 vertebrae, in September, seems now go from the T9 to the T12 vertebrae. There was something about my knees, but nothing cancerous there.

I will write more tomorrow, but wanted to get this out :-) I plan on writing about chronic pain and similar situations, where we really have to remember to communicate to others about what we need or how we feel & not just expect them to know about what's going on.

Angels be with you :-)

God Bless You for a Miracle Day!!!

Teresa Marie Katherine Rosa Angelica Rose :-)
Follow Your Bliss!!!
EXPECT A MIRACLE!
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