I was sent to a small diagnostic imaging lab to have my CT scan worked up. When I arrived, I checked in and was promptly given two large jugs of "Vanilla Smoothie" and a straw. You can call it whatever you want but Barium Sulfate isn't what champions are chasing their Wheaties with. I could smell it wasn't quite right and decided there was no way I could win the challenge with a straw. I hit it as fast and as hard as I could while trying to ignore my body's 6th sense. I can't say that they tasted badly but when Barium hits the back of your throat, your body seems to hesitate to move it further along the path. I don't know what to compare it with but it might be like trying to down a jug of eggnog that has just started to go bad. Heavy, I can still feel and taste it when I think about it.
The rest of the scan seemed to move along like clockwork.
- Undress
- Dress with a paper gown long enough to keep your belly button modest
- Lay down
- start IV
- Start up the CT scanner
- Start the Iodine IV (pretty funny feeling exhaling after they started the iodine)
- Hold Still
"We will send the images to your doctor sometime next week. Enjoy your weekend!"
The following week at the oncologists office I was told that they had detected a mass in my pelvis just left of my bladder, which measured 10X8 CM and that there were multiple lymph nodes involved.
We scheduled a Mass Biopsy to figure out what it was and a PT Scan to see if there was more.
**** Reality Check***** Felt pretty heavy.
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