Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Hello everyone!

I have a few updates, I've been very busy. I've been dealing with Zoe's newly-diagnosed migraines, Zachary got the flu, I missed an appointment, another was cancelled and my husband has issues with his Cpap machine. Things never seem to slow down. I guess I'm getting used to my port but I still dislike it. It's still tender.I've had 2 needles in it so far and DAMN did they hurt. I would have been happier sticking with the IVs but the nurses were really struggling with finding my veins. Each month after my pamidronate, I have to go to CanCare for them to remove the IV from my port. I have to laugh, they dress up head to toe in gown, hat, gloves, booties and one of those masks with a plastic shield in case something spurts toward their face. I guess whatever is going into my body is pretty toxic. Funny, they don't dress like that at the chemo room at KGH. I had my monthly pamidronate infusion for April and my routine Dr appointment. My best friend Denise came with me. Today I went for a bone scan. My osteoporosis and rheumatoid arthritis along with my degenerating discs and tumors on my spine, need to be monitored closely. Again won't know results until next appointment. I asked the tech for a printout of one of the scans. He directed me to medical records. I just wanted random photos/x-rays/scans/MRIs etc and they gave me a disc with 1000s of images and it's ONLY from 2011!!!! lol. It's very cool, it comes with a special built in viewer and with each click I can go through slices of my brain. There are other images of all my organs, body parts, fat!!! ewwwww, glad I've lost so much weight. I tell you, If you don't think you're overweight, get a full body x-ray, it will show you your bones and then all the chub around it YUCK! It truly shocked me. Glad I don't look like that now. Oh and since I reported I was under 200lbs, I'm now 193!!! I still want to lose more tho. Here are a few chosen images I'd like to share. I am not a medical technician/doctor so I can't answer many questions about them, but I thought they were cool.

I've been told many times I have no brain!

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PHEW!!! There it is :)

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Air-Supply ♪♫♪♫


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Just Breathe...


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This is an ultrasound of some part of me. I thought it was cool that I consist of fire and water *giggle*


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Thank you for all the continuing love, support and prayers.