Mon. 02-01-10

At 8am this morning I was at the CT scan facility ready for action. At 8:45 they were finally ready for me. Actually is was best that they were so busy, because at 5:45 when I got up my blood sugar was in the 60's. I was not to take any food since 5am. I then started to look for something I could find that would spike my BS but not destroy the no eating policy. I then found Sharon's trail mix, it had all kinds of peanuts and stuff, but only two raisins and two M&M in the entire bag. Oh she never HIGRADES her trail mix. But let me tell you, if you ever look into that bag before taking a hand full, she would call you out, right now. So the next place I looked was in the refrigerator and nothing, no orange juice, or anything that would solve my low blood sugar Finally, after bending my knees, as my mother always told me to do, I found some of Sammy's, Juicy Juice, and it had 25g of sugar. After taking that it got much better and I headed for the GI, CT scan.

If you have never had to drink the stuff that they coat your "whatever" with, you have not lived. Two sixteen bottles of the stuff. They now have it put in lemon aid looking bottles, but trust me it is not lemon aid. After sitting for an hour letting this junk settle, they came to get me and ushered me into the CT area. I had put on the card this time that I had a Port so they could access that as apposed to trying to stick my veins. When you receive so much Chemo, your veins are very easily collapsed. As it turns out, this nurse had just passed the tests required to be able to stick a port. The other facilities that I have been to have never been able to draw from my port. She had decided to do this on her own first and then went to the state to let her do it for her cancer patients. I told her how happy I was to know that they had this ability and that she did it on her own. Let me tell you, if your in Fort Wayne and need a CT with contrast, that's what they call it, and you want a good nurse, go to door #3 of the cancer center at Park View North.

After getting stuck the treatment only takes about twenty minutes. They just lay you on a table feet first and they but you in a round thing that takes pictures while you are slid back and forth inside it. It's the getting stuck and being worried about what it might show that is the hard part, oh yea that other drink stuff isn't fun either.

Well I lived another day so we will see tomorrow how I did on my tests. They were never that easy for me in school I know, and I didn't study at all for this one.

Hay Grace and Ron, thanks for the call. You too Catie, Tom and Maura. Love to hear from any of you people. It's a bitch sitting on the couch.

And no Cate, I didn't spell check it tonight either. Love to all, Tom