oh my God. Not again. Tomorrow morning I have to have another CT Scan so I can be part of the Clinical Trial in Chicago. Unfortunately that means I will have to drink two more bottles of that nasty Barium drink. Last time I only drink one and a half bottles because I just could not drink the full two. The hospital says it's best cold, which is a lie, and they say it's Orange so it shouldn't taste bad. Again, wrong. It's like drinking glue. Orange flavored glue. Thick and snotty, just nasty. They said they had Orange, Banana, Cherry and Grape. I asked for Banana but they were all out and so I got stuck with Orange again.
Anyway, enough about the Barium. Friday I will be also getting an EKG to check my heart and next week I will be going to Chicago to start my clinical trial and then next Friday I will go to the pain clinic and get some Morphine injected into my spine by a needle as a test run to see how my pain reacts to the medicine. If it goes well then I will get a pain pump put in. My doctor said that it will be placed on my right side near my waist line, much like my colostomy bag is. It will all be under my skin so I can't see it and I will have a remote that I can use to control when I need pain medicine. Hopefully I will only need it until I (hopefully) go into remission. Dr. J says I will probably be fighting my Cancer for the rest of my life, but i'm told from the people in Chicago that the medicine I will be taking for the clinical trial inhibits the tumor's to grow so I am hoping that this means the already shrinking tumors will go away.
Well not much else to say. I just hope tomorrow goes quickly. I am always so uncomfortable doing a CT because it hurts when I lay flat. I get shooting pain down my left leg to my toes from my tumors near my hip. Even though they put a cushion under my knees it still hurts. *sigh* Oh well, this is what I need to do to get better. Which I hope all of this isn't a waste, but then again....it's so far kept me alive just a little longer than it would if I didn't do anything. Which is something I would never take for granted.
Anyway, enough about the Barium. Friday I will be also getting an EKG to check my heart and next week I will be going to Chicago to start my clinical trial and then next Friday I will go to the pain clinic and get some Morphine injected into my spine by a needle as a test run to see how my pain reacts to the medicine. If it goes well then I will get a pain pump put in. My doctor said that it will be placed on my right side near my waist line, much like my colostomy bag is. It will all be under my skin so I can't see it and I will have a remote that I can use to control when I need pain medicine. Hopefully I will only need it until I (hopefully) go into remission. Dr. J says I will probably be fighting my Cancer for the rest of my life, but i'm told from the people in Chicago that the medicine I will be taking for the clinical trial inhibits the tumor's to grow so I am hoping that this means the already shrinking tumors will go away.
Well not much else to say. I just hope tomorrow goes quickly. I am always so uncomfortable doing a CT because it hurts when I lay flat. I get shooting pain down my left leg to my toes from my tumors near my hip. Even though they put a cushion under my knees it still hurts. *sigh* Oh well, this is what I need to do to get better. Which I hope all of this isn't a waste, but then again....it's so far kept me alive just a little longer than it would if I didn't do anything. Which is something I would never take for granted.