06-23-2006, 01:29 AM
The third anniversary of my surgery is coming up next month. I had my most recent checkup yesterday after 6 months. The chest xray and MRI were clear.I had a CT of the abdomen and pelvis but I probably won't hear about the results for a week or so. If that's also clear then I get to go a year before my next checkup. Not sure if I'm comfortable with that.
I'd also like to say that I hate contrast. I hate oral contrast. I hate injected contrast. It all sucks.
I started with the old chalky yuck oral contrast, moved on to the yogurty disgusting chalk contrast and finally the not as thick yogurty awful contrast.
Yesterday I had red kool-aid looking revolting contrast. Watery, but still disgusting.
And injected contrast is bad. Even though the effects are brief for about 15 seconds it made me really sick. It's just a bad feeling that I don't look forward to.
And I won't miss spending another hour in the damn MRI machine. I'm a little claustrophobic so it's quite a challenge.
I'd also like to say that I hate contrast. I hate oral contrast. I hate injected contrast. It all sucks.
I started with the old chalky yuck oral contrast, moved on to the yogurty disgusting chalk contrast and finally the not as thick yogurty awful contrast.
Yesterday I had red kool-aid looking revolting contrast. Watery, but still disgusting.
And injected contrast is bad. Even though the effects are brief for about 15 seconds it made me really sick. It's just a bad feeling that I don't look forward to.
And I won't miss spending another hour in the damn MRI machine. I'm a little claustrophobic so it's quite a challenge.
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