Pre-Op Testing Day One

July 2 I am in from the shore to get the bone scan and other tests. At 9: 45 AM I receive the dye shot and the technician tells me to return for the actual bone scan at 12:45 PM. Now I go tests loos tests. she has to use my other arm since I already have been stuck in my right arm! I have bandages on both arms when I leave to go get a chest x-ray. Befor the procedure, they ask me to fill out some forms. In the medical history part, this is the first time, I have to check Cancer and I start to cry. I haven’t thought of myself as a person with cancer. Now I will always have a history of cancer! Along with arthritis and GIRD!! the stakes have certainly risen.

After the x-ray, I go for an EKG. I assume all these tests are to insure that nothing else is wrong with me before surgery. I wait another hour and a half to get the bone scan which is a freaky test, looking for trouble in my bones!

I go home praying they find nothing.