Tired Girl

Ok.... had the biopsy and the MRI yesterday...lying in bed, relaxing today, with my Roo and YoYo!

All feeling a bit under the weather. The biopsy/mri was not fun... and thankfully it was more of an open MRI..so not so closed, but what amazed me is that they did the surgery right there in the MRI room.. just put his little tray of instruments right up along side of me and sat there and did the biopsy.

One thing that I thought was kind of neat is that while I was laying on my stomach for an hour, they had my boobies in this contraption. Ok so laying on my tummy put my breasts in the holes, and then the right one was compressed with this grid like thingie. So when they put me in the MRI machine, it made the images with a grid like pattern. This is so the physician could see which quadrant the doctor had to drill into to get the sample of "suspicious" tissue.

The IV was good, they only had to stick me 2 times, the drugs were ok as well, took the pain away not too groggy. While he was actually starting the biopsy, he started to inject me with Lidocaine. He used a total of 40mg when he ws all said and done. The thing that I really didn't like was the drill like thing.... he was cutting on the breast just a small incision, then this drill was going into my breast, and he says tell me if it hurts, and IT DID.... then he would stop and more Lidocaine..then again, but he was very nice. I was crying, and listening to country music on the headphones...the song that was on was Lonestar, From My Front Porch Looking in. I will forever relate that song to this procedure.

I kept on having to go in and out of the MRI machine for more pictures, then out for more surgical fun, then back again. I couldn't move because I couldn't move the right breast that was in the grid. It was horrible. An my arms were strapped to my sides so i couldn't even scratch my nose, or wipe my tears or nose.... I had to ask the nurse to do it for me..they always were asking me.."are you ok" what am I going to say? NO Get me the heck out of here? They already told me if I move, they can not finish the test because they can only inject me with the G-Contrast only once in a week or something like that. So that made me want to just suck it up and not move.

Anyway after all of that, they took me down to Mammo and had to give me a mammogram of the right breast, just to make sure that the clips they inserted were in the right spot. To me that was crazy, because I just had surgery and yes squeezing the breast after that, hurt, and of course bled.

Wonderful. Almost Barbaric, I would say. If this happens when I am awake, I can only wonder what happened the first time when I had my mastectomy.

Well I got home, and slept until early evening since the whole ordeal started at 10am I slept until 6pm...then had a bit of dinner. Then back to sleep...

So today, I am sore, and sick to my stomach... it bothers me alot actually.

And that is it.. I am not knowing anything about the results yet. I will let you know...

Stacy