CT & Bone Scan ✔️

Wednesday, March 12th

Back to Dartmouth Hitchcock in Lebanon! I was so thankful my Husband Jamie was able to join me. He has been so amazing! We got there at 11:45 and started “prepping” for the scans. First was prepping for the bone scan and getting IV access for the radioactive tracer. The tech stuck me 2 times and was like… “I’m going to get Ryan… he’s really good”. Ryan comes and was able to get access no problem! Then we went to CT prep… which is a huge water bottle of contrast. I chose raspberry lemonade flavor… and no it didn’t taste good hahah!! I had to drink 8 oz every hour or so! She told me I couldn’t eat anything once I started drinking the contrast and I needed to start in 20 minutes! AHHHHH I didn’t eat lunch yet and was pretty hungry… so we ran to the food court and scoffed down food!! I was then scheduled for a blood draw! I assumed they would use the IV access to draw blood but she was like hmmmm… we would need the IV team to come and do that and that will take 30 minutes for them to come. Which wouldn’t have worked because I had to be at the bone scan for a certain time. So they had to stick me AGAIN!!! gahhhh!

CT scan was a piece of cake! SUPER quick and easy! The bone scan lasted roughly 20 minutes and was also easy peasy! We left around 3:45- 4 hours in total!

Bone scan results are in and from what I understand my SI joint *near hips* is unchanged since 2018 and showing arthritic/degenerative changes. There is an increased uptake in the fifth right rib. Report says ” Due to appearance on CT, location, and solitary in nature this is favored to be a healed fracture. No definite metastases are present”. I just need to pray that this is nothing!!

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