The MRI (Magnetic Resonance
Imaging): It’s really not that bad although I’m poked by yet another needle.
This one is for injecting me with some fluid during the procedure. Yikes! I
hate needles!
I lie down on my stomach on
this long rectangular table and stick my boobs in cups. Kinda uncomfortable.
Then the table slides in and out of this large, tubular machine for about a
half an hour. Easy…although I must stay incredibly still. They give me
headphones to listen to music. It drowns out the loud foghorn sound of the
magnet machine as it creates detailed images of the organs and tissues in my
chest and armpits.
Throughout the half hour, I
say positive affirmations in my mind, praying that nothing else shows up on my
left breast. I repeat, “I’m healthy, whole, and complete.” Something I learned
from Louise Hay’s book, You Can Heal Your
Life.
http://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Heal-Your-Life/dp/0937611018
http://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Heal-Your-Life/dp/0937611018
After it’s over, I’m feeling
exhausted. The nurse gives me a reward at the end: a warm, chewy cookie! To
hell with sugar feeding cancer, I eat my cookie! I deserve it.
Results: My left breast is
clean. YAAAAY! But I’m still positive for the tumor in my right breast and two
armpit lymph nodes. Praise God there’s nothing more!
Get a copy of the MRI on a CD. Ask for it BEFORE
the procedure. YOU are your best advocate! Get copies of your mammograms and
ultrasounds on CD as well. Finally, get copies of all pathology reports and slides! You might have to hunt them down from
various places as I did but you will need these for your second opinions.
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