Another Reason to Take it One Day at a Time

So I'm continuing all of my diagnostics this week.

Besides the regular blood work I've gotten to enjoy being radioactive for a little while :-)
Besides the barium overloads (you don't want to know how many different ways they got that crap into me!) and the radioactive isotope injected into me, things are going well. It seems that UNofficially my bones are clean. At first there was a scare. I was called back for another bone scan picture. But the second one seemed to show I was clear.

As I'm learning, the technicians are very quick to tell you when there is nothing wrong. But will quickly refer any comments to the "doctor." This guy was cool and showed me where the abnormality was in my pelvis bone. I only tell you guys about this because then I got to go sit on the bone scan machine so they could get the pictures at a different angle. If you ever tried to photocopy your butt, you've definitely gotta try this!! Very cool. But he showed me the pictures and said as far as he could tell my bones look good. Another prayer answered.

After this of course we received some bad news. My mom was getting a mammogram at about the same time as me (different places) and they found two lumps that they are certain are cancer. Very bizarre and very not funny that mother and daughter should be going about this at the same time. The good news is that based on initial news they seemed to catch it at the VERY early stages. Of course this is all preliminary. But they are tiny masses and it seems to not be in her lymph nodes. All very good inidicators of a speedy recovery.

So if any of you reading this don't mind, please include my mom in your prayers. I'm definitely praying they caught hers earlier than mine and it will be a much easier treatment!! I'm young and can handle it much better than she would be able to.

Two more tests to go and then Friday afternoon I'll have all the results and put together (finally) a full treatment plan so I can get started next week.

By the way, if no one reads this that's fine. This is a great place for me to voice some of the things on my mind without weighing Kahlil down all the time. In a book, you feel like you're not talking to anyone. Here I can feel like someone is listening.