Reeka's blog: "Cancer stuffs"

Had the MRI today. To do a breast MRI, you have to lay on your stomach on this weird setup, and your boobs go through holes in it and hang down. Because of this, the IV for the contrast has to be put in a hand. Had I known this I would have panicked more. When I was in labor with my son they had to try 6 times to find a good vein to put the IV in. Eventually they used a vein between my fingers or something. At any rate, she tried on my left hand first, and after more than 5 minutes of prodding around she called for help. She felt the vein, but it just wasn't hitting it. She got it, but then lost it. So she had to try the right hand. Still took several tries to get it in.... I have huge bruises on the backs of both of my hands now and they hurt. After they got the IV in and started flushing it, I felt extremely faint. I'm usually fine with needles and blood and such... but I swear I almost passed out. In about 30 seconds there were 4 medical professionals in the room with me trying to see what was wrong. They had to wheel me down to the room with the MRI in a wheelchair cuz I was afraid I'd fall down. I barely fit in the machine. My ass was squeezed pretty tight, and I couldn't take a full breath because then my back would be compressed as well. I would have slept - might have even nodded off a couple times, but the thing is so darned loud it was basically impossible. My daughter is home sick with me. I'm heading off for a nap soon... I'm exhausted, barely slept last night.