Pre-Op Testing Day 2

July 3 I come back to the hospital for the MRI. I could not get it yesterday since it involves a shot as well and you cannot get it the same day as a bone scan. What a learning curve I am on! I am only having one test today and then am going back to the shore for Fourth of July and to end our two week family vacation on Long Beach Island.

I have had an MRI before on my knee and other body parts where I have been on my back. This time, I am om my stomach so my breasts hang into the machine wells were the pictures are being taken. The noise is amazingly loud! The procedure only takes 20 minutes in various stages and I have earphones with music which gets drown out by the machine, but I don’t care.

I am thinking about my grandmother Anna Manin (z”l) who died in 1951 when I was 8 years of of breast cancer which had spread to her stomach. She was 58 years old. Would she have fared better today with all the benefits of the technology I have access to? When was her cancer detected? What treatments were available? What a world of difference has been discovered in 60 plus years. My experience will be so different from hers. First, I can talk about it, mention the C word! I even blog about it! Cancer comes out of the closet like TB did a century ago. and scientifically, they have forged ahead.

So all I hope is that the results of the tests are good and things go well.