MRI Appointment

I am always nervous whenever I go in for an MRI, so today wasn’t any different. I have to get an MRI every 3 months for the rest of this year to make sure my cancer hasn’t come back. This MRI is also going to look at my tumor my doctor found earlier in the year. My cancer doesn’t have a high reoccurrence rate when chemo is used, so I am not really nervous about the results just the test itself.

Whenever I get an MRI, I always go to the main campus of UH and the MRIs are all the way in the basement. It is so eerie down there and just sets a very bad tone. This time I got to get an MRI inside of Seidman Cancer Center and I LOVE this building! It is brand new so everything is nice and it makes you feel like you are at home.

 

 

They also have this cancer store where you can buy merchandise and apparel for every single type of cancer. I really wanted to get a shirt that said survivor but then something else caught my eye. The day before I was telling my mom how I loved all of the UH fertility specialist’s company jackets and I really wanted one, except I wanted it to say Seidman Cancer Center. I spent a good chunk of the last year of my life there from my surgery, chemo, and appointments. And what do you think I found….that exact jacket! It was pricey, and even though I thought all cancer patients should get one for free haha, I bought it! And it put me in such a good mood.

 

To make things even better, the nurse who put my IV in was trained in doing it so she got it in on the first try! When I went into my MRI, it was really relaxing and nice. They have a nice scenario that plays on the walls and soothing music. Way different then the MRIs in the main campus. It made me feel safe and calm and they only had to redo one of my pictures. Normally they have to redo a lot of pictures because I move around a lot.

The only downside was that I had to get this shot that slows down movement in my intestines so they can get better pictures. This shot always makes me so nauseous and sick. But other than that everything else went well!

After my appointment I met up with a girl I met on facebook who has brain cancer. She was signed up to do the Disney College Program for the fall term and posted in the Facebook group how she couldn’t attend anymore due to cancer. I reached out to her because I was put in a similar situation. I found out I had cancer a week after I got accepted into the program. We talked for awhile until one day we found out we went to the same hospital and lived pretty close to each other! She gets her chemo treatments done at Rainbows in UH and radiation at the Seidman Cancer Center. She was getting radiation that day and I stopped down to chat with her before she went in. It was so nice to talk to someone who knew exactly how I felt and what I have gone through. We were both freshman when we found out and we both couldn’t go back to school. I plan on going to Rainbows to visit her during one of her chemo treatments really soon. Every please say a prayer for my friend Mackenna, she has a long battle but she is definitely a fighter!

 

I get my results back from my MRI tomorrow and I will post how everything goes.