Hello All,
Thanks for caring.
Last post I said that I was looking forward to snow crunching under me feet - bam - got six inches in my driveway this morning.
I had a MRI and Oncologist visit this week. First the excitement in the MRI! Let me set the stage. I have had over 30 MRI's, none of them this eventful. For a brain MRI, your head is locked into place with a 'detector cage' before you are slid into the tight confines of the tube.
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| Heading into MRI machine (stock photo, not me) |
My MRI's have two parts, one with contrast/Dye and the other without. I spend about 20 minutes in the tube, they slide me out, give me a contrast injection, slide me back in for the last 20 minutes....usually anyhow. Last week, as I was sliding back into the machine with the dye in my veins, and the tech was walking back to the control room, I got EXTREMELY nauseous. OMG i'm gonna barf all over the inside of this machine! The technician runs back in, slides me out, takes off the cage and I sit up. The tech gives me this little change-holder size cup to hurl into. This is not going to be big enough I say. Luckily, after about 30 seconds the nausea passed and I was ready for the second half of the test. I lay back down and as the flustered tech snaps the cage back over my head, the skin on my shoulder gets pinched in the seam of the cage. Screaming bloody murder ensues. Whats's wrong? Whats wrong? they shout. Of course the cage is jammed and they couldn't get it off for what seemed to be an hour. They let me have a lollipop on my out 😊
This last couple of weeks has been tormenting. My White Blood Cell count (WBC fights off infection) has not recovered to the normal range. After consulting with webMD.com om low WBC causes, I was/am convinced that my spleen failed. I'm really good at taking every last sensation in my body and mapping it to spleen failure symptoms. I have body aches, exhaustion, no appetite, and my wright is not recovering.
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| My White Blood Cell Count since starting PC-V |
The Doctor assured me that the chemo is causing this and we need to wait 'a little more time' to give my body a chance to recover. He said that I look great considering what I have been through and not to worry. OK, i'll try. Great news is that the MRI is stable.
Next MRI in three months.
