Two Needles in 5 Days!
So for a needle phobe like me, I had a pretty anxiety provoking week! I brought Bryce to get his flu shot on October 7th and figured I might as well get one, too. So I swung by a CVS pharmacy and voluntarily asked for a needle to be shoved in my arm. Bogus. But I know how important it is. Shots in my upper arm actually don’t really bother me much, thankfully. I was brave. I had to be because Bryce was watching. :-)
Sunday it was time for my yearly breast MRI. It had actually been almost two years since I had one because the last time I went for one was right before I got pregnant with Bryce. I didn’t have any MRI’s during pregnancy or nursing. So I was overdue and it was required in order to plan surgery, anyway. If anything suspicious was to come from the MRI, it would be biopsied and if God forbid, it was cancerous, I would be treated and surgery would be put off until chemo and/or radiation was completed.
Before we left for the hospital, I took two Ativan (Brian drove) and I smothered Lidocaine (numbing cream) all over my left arm crack and covered my arm in saran wrap. (Ridiculous, I know. But if I didn’t have these things to help me cope, I would probably avoid doing them.) The actual MRI doesn’t bother me. For a breast MRI you lie face down with your arms stretched in front of you like Superman and your boobs hang into two holes on the table. You close your eyes and you can’t tell that you are in the tube. No big deal. BUT they have to administer a dye intravenously called Gadolinium Contrast towards the end of the test so that they can get better images inside the breast. So until the IV is inserted, I am a nervous, anxious mess. The two Ativan helped a little but three probably would have been better. ;-)
Anyway, I finally got the news today that I wanted to hear. BI-Rads 1 Negative in both breasts. That means no signs of cancer and I have the all clear to really move forward with surgery to remove the girls before something can develop. Good news!
Love and boobies,
Allison
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