The magic donut speaks!

Well, I made it through the scan yesterday.

I was so nervous, had a pounding headache, I'm sure my blood pressure was through the roof. I got an informed consent form when I first walked in and had to read through that before I went...it said something about how the contrast agent (in rare cases) has killed people. Needless to say, I was thrilled. When the Nurse took me in, she told me that they might not even need to use the contrast agent; they were going to take a few scans first and if they couldn't see well enough, they would have to use it.

I got on the table and was inserted into the donut and told that it was going to tell me what to do and that I would go through 3 times. She left the room and I moved further into the hole and the machine said, "BREATHE IN", "HOLD YOUR BREATH", and finally, "BREATHE" in this loud and deep voice. The first 2x it actually made me laugh. After 3 passes, I was waiting for the nurse to come back and she didn't. Then I started going in again and once more, for a total of 5. Of course, by this point, I'm thinking they saw something and they're just trying to get a better look...nervous as can be.

The Nurse walked in smiling and said, "You're all set. The Dr. looked at the scan and he was underwhelmed which is a great thing!" I was so relieved...then after, she took John and I in the booth and showed us the scans. She said that what they were looking at looked "pretty much like it should" and that I shouldn't worry. I just liked looking at my spine, and I was glad to hear her say that all those little black dots were actually gas bubbles and not tumors...haha .

So, the Dr. is going to have a more thorough look and send off his official report to my other Dr., but at this point, I'm fairly certain everything is okay. I would think that if they saw anything strange, they would have done another scan with the contrast agent just to be sure. Since that didn't happen and both the Dr. and Nurse thought it looked fine...I feel good about it.

Thank you everyone for all your prayers and support! Love you guys!