Bone Scan - Check

Monday, April 2, 2012

Today I had the treat of going to my bone scan appointment at the hospital with my dear friend and visiting teacher, Tracy. Tracy is such a light to be around. She is one of those people who just looks for opportunities to serve her fellow man every single day.  Well today, we went over to the hospital to get my radioactive injection in preparation for the scan later this afternoon. In the past three weeks that I’ve been going to doctors’ offices and hospital appointments, I have never seen so many sick, coughing, ill people as I did today getting registered for my bone scan. It was a little overwhelming. I knew I needed to be there and I also recognized that I’m not supposed to be around sick people. Tracy offered to stand in line so I wouldn’t get too worn out waiting for my turn to get registered at the desk. Then a sick lady with a blanket wrapped around her, approached me and wanted to sit in the chair next to me. Tracy quickly walked over and moved her things so I could sit one chair further away from the sick lady. I tried not to breathe too deeply. Haha  finally they got me registered and off we went to get my injection. It was a piece of cake and soon I was back home taking a nap getting ready for the afternoon scan.

The bone scan took one hour to complete. I was lying on the skinniest little bench and the technician strapped my arms and body to the little bench so I wouldn’t fall off. I asked him how larger people ever fit on the tiny bench and he smiled, “They just hang off both sides.” Okay then. I was happy I wasn’t hanging off. The machine passed very slowly over my body multiple times and took pictures from many different angles. My job was to be perfectly still during the entire process. Friendly, Tracy visited with the technician and I listened to them talk. It helped pass the time. When I got ready to leave I was given a piece of paper that indicated that I was radioactive for the next ‘x’ amount of time and if I were to go through security at the airport, I might actually set off the security scanners. How exciting would that be! Alas, I’m don't think I'll be not going anywhere exotic for a while, but it’s still a fun piece of paper to keep in my scrapbook of treasures.