Tomorrow

Most tests I have had from biopsies, blood, MRI's with and without contrasts, ultrasounds for every innards in the human body, as well as for pain... IVP the kidney x-ray with and without contrasts, bone density test, mammography’s, etc…you name it I am more than sure I have had it test wise, but not this one ever before…

So instead of being a bit scarred, may be I should think it is just something new, nu?

“Bone scan Definition - Tests and Procedures - Mayo Clinic

www.mayoclinic.org/.../bone-scan/.../definition/PRC-20020302

 A bone scan is a nuclear imaging test that helps diagnose and track several types of bone disease. Your doctor may order a bone scan if you have unexplained skeletal pain suggesting bone loss, bone infection or a bone injury undetectable on a standard X-ray.... A bone scan is also an important tool for detecting cancer that has spread (metastasized) to the bone from a tumor that started in a different organ, such as the breast or prostate. Similarly, a bone scan can detect some abnormalities related to leukemia and lymphoma.” Why it's done

By Mayo Clinic Staff

If you have unexplained bone pain, a bone scan may help determine the cause. Images from bone scans can reveal bone abnormalities related to these conditions:

• Fractures
• Arthritis
• Paget's disease of bone
• Cancer originating in bone
• Cancer that has spread (metastasized) to bone from a different primary site, such as the prostate, lung or breast
• Infection of the joints, joint replacements or bones (osteomyelitis)
• Fibrous dysplasia
• Impaired blood supply to bones or death of bone tissue (avascular necrosis)”

I guess that chest X-ray I got was not as self explanatory as I thought.

We all know that these less invasive tests, such as bone scans, although they are deemed completely safe we as aware creatures of habit who know from stories on the TV that some of these so-called “safe tests” things can go very wrong, true?

And no, I will not be put to sleep with any anesthesia, but the radioactive chemical injected into my arm sounds a bit ominous you must admit?

Why is it taking three hours to reach its necessary potency and permeate through my bones that would logically take some time to be able to be scanned?

Alright, that does sound plausible; I suppose that it has many locations to reach, since my prescription is for a full body scan...and I do have quite a lot for it to see…!

More than most, I suspect.

Even with knowing all that I am going to need some really big distractions to not over think this whole thing like I sadly have done too many times before…and this gives you the results in 24 to 48 hours, but when does the doctor tell you those results, hmm?

Yes, that is the question, always…

In all my years I have found that doctors don’t call with good news any time soon, but they have with bad…

Geez, don’t they know we also like to know the good?

I hate once again depending on others for my fate, damn!

Cringe factor be DAMNED! Take that four letter word now more than four, no longer a curse? Who cares, this has to be expressed and if some cussing is necessary for that emotion, so it be!

I do think my needing to know how it went as soon as they get it is not that difficult a request or too much to ask; do you?

All patients should be treated with dignity, and yet some medical people forget that. If only they would put themselves in our position, and no I do not mean taking the test for us, unless they really, really want to… That’s utterly ridiculous!

The reason I posted the exact info on the test I think a few of the people I reach with this blog might have thought I was referring to the bone density test given without the above reasonings, just to check for Osteopenia or Osteoporosis. “A bone density test determines if you have osteoporosis — a disease that causes bones to become more fragile and more likely to break.
In the past, osteoporosis could be detected only after you broke a bone. By that time, however, your bones could be quite weak. A bone density test enhances the accuracy of calculating your risk of breaking bones.
A bone density test uses X-rays to measure how many grams of calcium and other bone minerals are packed into a segment of bone. The bones that are most commonly tested are in the spine, hip and forearm.”

• Identify decreases in bone density before you break a bone
• Determine your risk of broken bones (fractures)
• Confirm a diagnosis of osteoporosis
• Monitor osteoporosis treatment”

http://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/bone-density-test/basics/why-its-done/prc-20020254

See, not scary at all!

Just thought I would clarify if some did not click on the links that I had left last time I discussed this...I really don’t blame you.

On that note of trying hard to be understood one day at a time… allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share all those overages with you who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

WISH ME LUCK!