Is there anything I hate worse than going for a scan? Updated

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  • cinreag
    cinreag Member Posts: 154
    Such good news. Happy for

    Such good news. Happy for you....

  • LivinginNH
    LivinginNH Member Posts: 1,456 Member
    Wow!! NED!!!  I am so very

    Wow!! NED!!!  I am so very happy for you!!!!  :)

  • jen2012
    jen2012 Member Posts: 1,607 Member
    Great funny post and awesome

    Great funny post and awesome news!  :)  Enjoy the weekend.

  • smokeyjoe
    smokeyjoe Member Posts: 1,425 Member
    jen2012 said:

    Great funny post and awesome

    Great funny post and awesome news!  :)  Enjoy the weekend.

    Great news on the scans,  

    Great news on the scans,   congratulations!!!!    Seems those trailers outside of hospitals are getting more common!!!   Our hospital has a large one, not sure what kind of scans are done there,  the CT's are done in the hospital.   But, I've heard people being directed out to the "trailer".     It seems to be pretty permanent and doesn't go anywhere.   

  • Sundanceh
    Sundanceh Member Posts: 4,392 Member
    Tacos? But, Hold the Cheese?

    My old cancer center had a roach coach sitting outside the bldg too...they did MRI's in there...oh well, a room is a room...and a machine is a machine...

    Now, the new place...they've got scanners all over the campus...and even different satellite locations...no temp bldgs allowed...

     Congrats on the clear status!  I've kept this last port in (3rd one) until I know something...usually when I had them pulled, I was maxed out on my plan and the surgery was free...having not met the out of pocket maxiumum since treatment ended...it would be out of pocket of course if I wanted to do it (which I would)...so I'll have to hold for awhile...even if I scan clean soon.

    It just seems "Cheaper to Keep Her."

    All smiles for you!

    -Craig

  • BusterBrown
    BusterBrown Member Posts: 221 Member
    AA, you rock!  Keep doing

    AA, you rock!  Keep doing what your doing!  I've done some many CT's that I've lost count. CT don't bother me as much as waiting for the results.  To borrow a verse from Tom Petty,  "The waiting is the hardest part."

    Buster

  • annalexandria
    annalexandria Member Posts: 2,571 Member
    Sundanceh said:

    Tacos? But, Hold the Cheese?

    My old cancer center had a roach coach sitting outside the bldg too...they did MRI's in there...oh well, a room is a room...and a machine is a machine...

    Now, the new place...they've got scanners all over the campus...and even different satellite locations...no temp bldgs allowed...

     Congrats on the clear status!  I've kept this last port in (3rd one) until I know something...usually when I had them pulled, I was maxed out on my plan and the surgery was free...having not met the out of pocket maxiumum since treatment ended...it would be out of pocket of course if I wanted to do it (which I would)...so I'll have to hold for awhile...even if I scan clean soon.

    It just seems "Cheaper to Keep Her."

    All smiles for you!

    -Craig

    The cost will be the same for me whenever I have it done,

    but what keeps me a little hesitant is that the last time I had it pulled out, I was back in the hospital for emergency surgery just three months later.  I am seriously superstitious about having it out after that little episode.

  • annalexandria
    annalexandria Member Posts: 2,571 Member

    AA, you rock!  Keep doing

    AA, you rock!  Keep doing what your doing!  I've done some many CT's that I've lost count. CT don't bother me as much as waiting for the results.  To borrow a verse from Tom Petty,  "The waiting is the hardest part."

    Buster

    That song has pretty much become my anthem...

    although I do love all songs by Tom.  Seeing him in concert is on my bucket list, but he's getting kind of old, so I think I better get on it!

  • annalexandria
    annalexandria Member Posts: 2,571 Member
    Chelsea71 said:

    Awesome news. So happy for
    Awesome news. So happy for you. If I were you, I would re-think this whole dairy thing. Maybe you should do exactly what you've been doing for the past 14 months. If Steve is fortunate enough to get a surgery or procedure, he will definitely be taking cimetidine!

    Congrats!

    Chelsea

    That would be pretty funny...

    (in a not-so-funny way) if I gave up the dairy, and BOOM!  My cancer came back all of a sudden.  Could probably get a job as a spokesperson for the National Dairy Association...

  • annalexandria
    annalexandria Member Posts: 2,571 Member

    Wow!! NED!!!  I am so very

    Wow!! NED!!!  I am so very happy for you!!!!  :)

    Thank you, Cynthia...

    I'm happy but it's always tempered by the sadness of knowing that too many good people came to the end of the journey way too young because of this wretched stuff.  Makes my heart hurt.

  • marbleotis
    marbleotis Member Posts: 720 Member
    Happy Happy Happy for you

    Enjoy and get that port out.  I had mine taken out in the hospital - it was a happy day. 

    Do not let them convince you to have taken out in office.

    I said it was put in while in the hospital when I was knocked out (Zzzzzz) and that is exactly how it's coming out!!

  • Helen321
    Helen321 Member Posts: 1,459 Member
    Great news!!!!!!!!!  Now go

    Great news!!!!!!!!!  Now go buy yourself a celebration taco!  And thanks for making me laugh.  lol  I'm also now two weeks NED.  Verified by surgery biopsy. Go NED, go NED, go NED. Actually I'm going to rephrase that!  Stay NED, stay NED, stay NED!  lol

  • annalexandria
    annalexandria Member Posts: 2,571 Member

    Happy Happy Happy for you

    Enjoy and get that port out.  I had mine taken out in the hospital - it was a happy day. 

    Do not let them convince you to have taken out in office.

    I said it was put in while in the hospital when I was knocked out (Zzzzzz) and that is exactly how it's coming out!!

    I had my port taken out once before...

    which was a bad move...had it back in for more chemo in the blink of an eye.  But I had it done in clinic, while I was wide awake.  Talk about disturbing!  I could feel the doc pulling it out...have never wanted to be knocked out so much as at that moment.  Will take that into consideration the next time around.

  • tootsie1
    tootsie1 Member Posts: 5,044 Member
    It's not every day that a

    It's not every day that a post on here makes me laugh quite so much. I know you were anxiouis at the time, but that's a pretty funny story. And I'm SO glad your results were so wonderful!

     

    *hugs*

    Gail

  • YoVita
    YoVita Member Posts: 590 Member
    Congratulations

    14 months - is that a record for you?  Excellent news.  Enjoy.  Love your comments and attitude.  From a fellow librarian.

  • annalexandria
    annalexandria Member Posts: 2,571 Member
    YoVita said:

    Congratulations

    14 months - is that a record for you?  Excellent news.  Enjoy.  Love your comments and attitude.  From a fellow librarian.

    Yup...definitely a record!

    I was having surgery about every 6 months there for a couple of years.  Getting over a year for a break is pretty thrilling!  I didn't know you were also a librarian.  Do you work in a public library?

  • dmj101
    dmj101 Member Posts: 527 Member
    Yea!! they say time heals all

    Yea!! they say time heals all wounds..

    So happy for you!

  • relaxoutdoors08
    relaxoutdoors08 Member Posts: 521 Member
    Happy for You

    So happy to hear the great news.  I still have my port in at 2 years because my Onc. said I may need it.  Hoping for both of us that we continue NED and do not need to use our ports.  Congratulations.

    NB

  • YoVita
    YoVita Member Posts: 590 Member

    Yup...definitely a record!

    I was having surgery about every 6 months there for a couple of years.  Getting over a year for a break is pretty thrilling!  I didn't know you were also a librarian.  Do you work in a public library?

    I'm a library director

    of a small public library in Illinois.  I'm more of a manager than a librarian these days.  How about you - public librarian?  We're renovating a building for our new library.  Exciting and stressful!  Bet you don't miss your semi-annual surgeries.  

    Best, Vita

     

  • tachilders
    tachilders Member Posts: 313
    Congrats on such great news. 

    Congrats on such great news.  Hoping some day I hear those words...