Scan Time, Deep Joy!

Djinnie,

Hot coffee, hot chocolate and hot totties when you return home to warm you body.  All good thoughts of all of us with you cheering you on and praying for you always to warm your heart and soul.

Arleen

As far as spring goes--I have no idea where it is certainly not in my neck of the woods either.  Lol 

Jojo61 said:

Hi DJinnie!
Stay warm, and

Hi DJinnie!

Stay warm, and think warm thoughts. We will be thinking about you and sending our good thoughts, karma and prayers your way for great scans and good health.

Big hugs

Jojo

Wishing you all the best with your scans!  And let the spring come to you asap :-)

APny said:

You will be in my thoughts

You will be in my thoughts and prayers as always. I'm hoping for some good news for you. Hugs xx

Good luck with your scan

Djinnie

you are in my thoughts and prayers, good luck with your scan

Forough

Hoping all goes well with scans? keep us posted 

I am alive said:

Got my fingers and toes crossed for ya!

We're on the same 3-month schedule so I know exactly how you felt yesterday! It's amazing how we live in these 3 month bubbles, isn't it? My face today is tomato red - my reaction to the CT dye despite premedicating with Benadrlyl and Prednisone. It looks like we are getting near 8 inches of snow here today so no one will see me and my big red balloon face - it's definitely a stay-at-home day. Having a little toast and coffee then think I will climb back into bed. 

Yesterday, though, was quite the journey. I travel two hours, too, to get to my cancer center, but I use public  transportation. Took the suburban train into Philly where I caught a bus for the two-hour drive intoNYC, then walked 5 blocks to the subway station to shoot uptown (changing trains once, climbing up steep subway stairs, hanging onto the railing, being a slowpoke), then walked several blocks to the cancer center. After the tests I did everything in reverse - walk, subway (two trains), walk, bus, train, home. 

I actually prefer it this way. My husband drives fast and because of that the trip with him can be stressful, especially in inclement weather. Oh yes, yesterday was rainy and slushy, with ice and snow on the ground, here and there. Quite the adventure. But I am deeply grateful that I can still manage it on my own. A little short of breath now and then - especially going up those subway steps - but invigorating. I love walking in a big city, feeling swept along with humanity. An infinitesimal cog in the big machinery. It's a good perspective to have.

Now we wait for our dr appointments to get the results. Mine is next Tuesday. I can wait. I tend to get freaked out just before the tests. Once that's done I try very hard to block the fear and anxiety by keeping busy, refusing to "go there," which works pretty well until I'm actually in the doctor's office waiting to see him. You know the drill. What can we do? There's nothing we can do to alter the results. They will be what they will be and we - because we must - will deal with them. I'll be thinking of you, Djinnie! Sending light and love your way!

Keeping fingers crossed for both of you.

Djinnie said:

You're a Trooper!

My goodness you're a trooper, I take my cap off to you, that is some journey and on your own. Sounds like a complete work out, and all in the cold weather too. I know it has been pretty bad in New York, my daughter lives there and has been moaning about it for weeks. Is that the first time you have suffered a reaction to the contrast? sounds miserable, but as you say with the heavy snow staying in right now sounds the best place to be.

Getting through these three monthly tests is always so difficult, like you I try to stay occupied so not to dwell on it, it's not always easy. The nights are the worst for me as I don't sleep well, so I usually listen to music if I wake up. My results are on Wednesday, my husband is taking me out on Tuesday to take my mind off it, although in this weather I am not sure where we are going. I agree whatever the results we have to accommodate them and deal with them as best we can. I will be thinking of you too, all the very best to you. Keep warm:)

 

Djinnie x

 

 

Great results!  AND for spring to come. We, in MI, have one more day of bitter record lows then it looks to start warming up...at least to be above zero.  Still, we have had it far better than you folks in the East - or even South of us!

I am going in for my 1 year next week.  It was a year to the day this past Monday.  Seems both so long ago and just yesterday.

Djinnie said:

All the Best!

aamdsi, I know what you mean about the time, that being the anomaly of the Cancer experience. I wish you well with your scan results too, I hope the three of us have good results. I will be praying for a hat trick.

I hope you get some sunshine, I'm in France so we are experiencing a different weather pattern. Never the less we are desperate for some warmth, the sooner the better:)

 

Djinnie x

All of you.  Or is that the postal service workers who slog through rain, sleet and snow?  In any kind of weather, those of us here seem to take what is thrown our way and get to the tests, wait on the results, and move on with living.

My next batch is not until May, but it hits with a bang.  Follow up Mammogram based upon what they found 6 months ago, fasting labs and then my PC Dr., Chest X-ray and US to monitor the RCC and then results with the oncology office.

Oh, and my husband does his fasting labs and PC appt., and sees his Ophtalmologist to follow an auto-immune disease that affects his eyes.

At least I can say it is sunny here and I have the office door open.  It's frosty in the early mornings and then warms to the hi 50's-low 60's.

Keep on, keeping on.  Hugs to all.

Donna

I am alive said:

Ahhhhhh France!

France is so lovely. We were in Paris a year ago last November to visit  our daughter who was studying abroad. I was so taken with the beauty of the city that I read voraciously about its history and that of the French Revolution when I got home. Couldn't get enough. And I still miss the bread! We visited the Loire region too. Gotta love those castles.

Regarding my allergy to contrast dye, I broke out in severe hives along the chest and neck some 10 years ago when I was first diagnosed and had my first scan. Since then I've premedicated with 150 mg of Prednisone (one 50 mg pill 13 hrs  before the CT, another 50mg pill 7 hrs before and the third pill 1 hr before),  and also take two 25 mg pills of Benadryl an hour before. The docs recently switched me to a banana-flavored barium kind of contrast drink beforehand that has either less or no iodine - I can't remember. Seems to lessen the red face syndrome the next day.

I wish I could send you the picture outside my front window. It's a symphony of white - thick, fluffy white carpet of snow, snow-laden trees standing utterly still as more soft flakes keep falling from the white sky. And everything is so QUIET!! Beautiful (and just a tad spooky). Exciting, though, to know spring is right around the corner. Thanks everybody for all the good wishes!! They're like flower seeds planted 'neath this snow.

For some reason that's what I'm thinking, office door open and all. Well enjoy! Wow, you and your husband will be hit up with quite the whammy come May but you have a couple of months now to dance in the sun. I'll be thinking of you doing that. Wishing you all the best.