The Glass is Half Full.......July 20th results

Thanks to my cousin Jo for reminding me that I should never stop looking at the glass as being half full. She was right. I went in for the the cat scan & the bone scan both of which came back clear! Yay.....It was a very long day of tests but well worth it.
It started at 11 am, got to the 3rd floor of the out patient center & they put in an IV it was to send a radioactive dye through my body, for the bone scan. This takes 2 hours for that to happen so i left there & headed to the cat scan next while the dye travel though out my body. Before the cat scan I get to drink this liquid, its a red crystal light drink that helps with the contrast when they put that in. Ugh i do not drink diet things so image something really sweet with a horrible diet after taste that's red, cold and 24oz. & my family is not understanding why I'm choking it down. Let alone they only gave me about 15 minutes to drink it!
I go in for the scan its only 5 min. very odd they put this stuff in the IV & the tech says now your body is going to get very warm, & you will feel like your peeing but I promise you, you are not. I feel it omg, are you sure I'm not peeing, (really thought I was, so odd). Oh let me back up a bit, so last Wednesday when I got home from my god awful day, There was a package waiting for me. It was a quilt made by my Aunt Joan (Jessica's mom) really a beautiful purple & pink quilt for me to take with me to the Dr's knowing its so cold in the office & for when I start chemo. I have received lots of gifts, Candy from the fudge kitchen (yum), flowers, cookies, fruit, PJ'S, Holy water, Saints, Prayer cards & cards galore....Flowers, dinners, food! More things then i could ever list & truly appreciate everything. I can't not thank you all enough.  But the blanket i now believe is like a good luck charm.
OK back to the scan so as always its cold in there so they let me put the CQ(cancer quilt, that's what Joe calls it) On. I also had my padre pio relic taped to my arm, & my blessed mother bracelet from Gabby ( a fellow survivor).
Next up to the 4th floor to the Breast center to meet with Laura Gavin to hopefully have the drain removed. Yup its ready, first she expands the boob more this needs to be completed before any chemo can start. So she gives me 100cc of fluid that's double the week before. Watch out Dolly Parton this baby is standing straight up! Oh & hurts like a M'fer again!!! Now she rips the drain out, literally. I'm not feeling so good, a bit pale & light headed. But i need to get down stairs to the bone scan that's in 5 mins. So in a wheel chair I go.
I've had to take to pain killers thanks to the amount of pain i am in from expansion & the drain being removed so I am a bit out of it. This test should take about 45 mins. What happens next was sort of an out of body experience....I start to fall a sleep ( lots of pain meds & I'm really covered up since its cold in there my CQ is on me & padre pio. Can't have the bracelet its metal) I smelled this perfume odd cause its me & the tech in there only & I know shes not wearing any. sort of smelled like L'air Du Temp it was an old perfume smell i remember & believe grandmom Peditto or Aunt Lana used to wear it? or both? Any cousins with info on this? So i think either one or both of them was in the room w/ me.
The end result from a very long day...clear scans, chemo still for sure but only about 4 months now, depending on my health, radiation for 4 weeks, 5 days a week. all of this is less then was originally thought. & of course could change at any moment. But if all goes well reconstruction & ovaries out in August of 2012 instead of March 2013.....Finger crossed & keep the prayers comin. Love you all.
Next appointment Aug. 1, Dr.Sacks (plastics - last expansion), Aug. 2nd Medical oncology in NJ. To find out was the treatment will be.
xoxo

Me with my CQ-& Florence Nightingale (Stephanie)

Yucky red drink