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  • Djinnie
    Djinnie Member Posts: 945 Member
    #22
    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.

    Beautiful description!

    Hi I am alive, 

    I agree France is beautiful, one of it's attractions being the diversity of the landscape. I grew up in the rural countryside of the UK which is beautiful too, but the Island has become too overcrowded for me. We moved to France for the wide spaces, cleaner air and fantastic scenery. I love it here, it's so peaceful and secure.

    It sounds lovely where you are right now too, there is nothing quite like the look and feel of freshly fallen snow. It is like a soft whisper! I loved your last paragraph, it was quite a beautiful turn of phrase.

     

    Djinnie x

  • Jan4you
    Jan4you Member Posts: 1,330 Member
    #23
    {{{{ DJINNIE }}}}} Hugs to

    {{{{ DJINNIE }}}}} Hugs to you and yours~

     

    You ARE a trooper! I admire you so much. Just know that even when you are "challenged", I am thinking of you, spirit-to-spirit, heart-to-heart! Never feel you are not connected okay my dear?

    I'll be looking foward to a better report which makes it worth it. No matter what, YOU will never go through this alone, for you are part of us, THE CNS POSSE!!!

    Hugs and prayers, Jan

  • cran1
    cran1 Member Posts: 139
    #24
    Hey D my thoughts are with

    Hey D my thoughts are with you. Scan anxiety gets me also everytime.

  • Jojo61
    Jojo61 Member Posts: 1,309 Member
    #25
    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.

    Hi I am alive,
    Keeping my

    Hi I am alive,

    Keeping my fingers crossed for you as well for good results - and so sorry about your reaction to the dye. Hope you are feeling better soon!

    Hugs,

    Jojo

  • danbren2
    danbren2 Member Posts: 311
    #26
    cran1 said:

    Hey D my thoughts are with

    Hey D my thoughts are with you. Scan anxiety gets me also everytime.

    Hoping All Scans are Wonderful!

    Djinnie,

         March must be the scan month, mine is coming up on March 21.  Sending prayers, great karma, and anything else that will help us all to get all clean scans!

                                            Brenda 

  • angec
    angec Member Posts: 924 Member
    #27
    Hi DJ and I'm alive!  How did

    Hi DJ and I'm alive!  How did the scans go?  You two are such troopers!  I got energized just by reading your posts!  Sending love, hugs, good wishes to all of you warriors here.

     

    Ange

     

     

  • Billy's Wife
    Billy's Wife Member Posts: 52
    #28
    Dear Ange,
    I just happened

    Dear Ange,

    I just happened upon your post and thought I should tell you to check Dijinnie's thread of 3/11/15.  I wish I had good news.

    I am sorry.

    Arleen

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