MRI's Are Fun And Easy!

Well I went for my latest MRI on Monday and I thought it would be a piece of cake. The whole time I was thinking "How hard can an MRI be? All I have to do is lay there and maybe get a little shut-eye while the machine does the work." I got a little shut-eye alright.As soon as I got there I had to fill out a 2 page questionaire asking me everything from family history to allergies. The one question that caught my eye was whether or not I had any tatoos. Having a couple I asked the nurse why this was important and it turns out that sometimes they can start to heat up durring the scanning so if I started to feel any burning sensations I was to please let them know. It's funny that this was the question that caught my eye because nothing happened. In fact it was another question that should have gotten my attention.You know when you're filling out those long questionaires and you start to go into auto-pilot? You start going down the list at speed checking "NO" to everything? That's what I did. One of the questions that I maybe shoul've paid a little more attention to was "Did you have any reaction to the radioactive dye durring your last MRI?" Like I said I was thinking:"Nah, piece of cake". Well it turns out I did have a reaction the last time but because the tumors affected my memory I totally forgot. Guess how fast those sweet memories came flooding back? So there I was with my head strapped down and an I.V. of radioactive dye hooked up to my arm while my body was dunked sideways into this giant beer can and I started feeling a little woosey. Doesn't get much more relaxing than that. I will tell you one thing though; there was no way I was going to stop and do it all over again so I kept my eyes closed, breathed deeply and took it for the 25 minutes it took for them to finish the fashion shoot with my bean. Needless to say I felt like a great big bag of "something" for the rest of the day but it's done.I go back to see the speacialist this monday to get the results and then I start treatment on what's left of the stubborn little buggers. I'm not looking forward to it but hey, I've come this far why not go whole hog? Seriously though, I know it will be over in no time and then I can get back to what is considered normal for me. On the bright side of things, how many people get the summer off? Suckers!