Last night and this morning I was reminded about how horrible having cancer can be. Today I had to go in for a CT Scan for my 5 year mark since my cancer surgery to find out if I'm still cancer free. The CT Scan was fine. However, the events that unfolded before the scan are the nightmare.
If you have never had cancer or needed a CT Scan considered yourself lucky. It's not the cancer or the surgery or the recovery that's the nightmare. The nightmare is having to drink 900 mL of barium contrast before the actual CT Scan. Just the mere thought of the diabolic liquid makes me cringe and have gag reflexes.
So last night around 9:00 pm I decided I would drink my first 450 mL of barium. I decided to stay up until a little after midnight because I knew the satanic liquid from Hell would upset my stomach. I was fine until about 12:30 am after I had laid down in bed that my stomach became upset. To spare the gory details I believe I had to urgently run to the bathroom 6 times last night between the hours of 12:15 am and 7:00 am.
My CT Scan was scheduled for 8:30 am this morning so I had to drink an additional 450 mL of barium contrast at 7:30 am. The hardest part of my day was not avoiding getting shanked by an inmate or getting into a car wreck and bursting into flames. No. It was drinking that last 450 mL of pure evil. I knew my stomach and bowels would make me regret it soon after. Fortunately, I was able to hold off from the ungodly explosion until after I got home from the hospital. Thank goodness!!!!
So that was my day. How was yours?
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