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Monday, November 1, 2010

Mugga Scan

Well today was the day of the Mugga Scan to see if my heart was up to it. I arrived at Englewood Hospital for 9.30am and signed in and waited for someone to come and get me and a man called Ryan appears (very young) as we walked down the corridors to his little room he is explaining what will happen. 
He inserts an IV into my arm and draws some blood and then tells me he is going to mix it with some radioactive stuff, this will take 30-35mins to mix and so I would have to wait in the waiting room and he will come and get me.
So I decided to sit outside in the fresh air and make some calls while I was waiting. I called the cancer doctor ask I wanted to ask some things. They said they would call me back.
30 mins later Ryan came looking for me and off we went.
He then injected this yucky looking stuff (my blood cocktail) back through the IV and then I laid on this machine that had a camera. I had to put my arms up over my head and he said the first picture would take 8mins as long as it could pick up the beats otherwise it could be longer. Laying there it seemed to take ages and it was cold and then of course I so wanted to go to the toilet lol After the second picture take I had to go was busting lol
Finally all 3 pictures were taken and Ryan said my heart looked pretty good and I was over 65% so all should go well. Once the chemo starts they will do this test again to make sure the heart is not suffering.
I finally left there at 11.43am and then I had an appt at the Surgeon who fitted the Medi port he wanted to make sure it was healed and looked good. And it does just looks like a little scratch.
So that was my day...
The chemo nurse did call me back and answered my questions which was good because after reading all the booklets they give you it kinda blows your mind a little.
So thats it until next Monday 8th when everything kicks off wish me luck.......

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