Friday, October 10, 2003

Cat Scan I've had cancer twice, and today I go to my HMO, Kaiser, to get blood tests and a cat scan to see if I'm still in remission. This morning I got up early to get some stuff mailed at the post office, so I could get to Kaiser by 9:00 AM. I got there at 8:57, actually, but there were still about a dozen people ahead of me. That made me kind of nervous, because I knew I'd have to go home by 10:00 AM to get a Fed Ex delivery that had been sent to me. I hate to miss deliveries because it's such a hassle getting them back. Sometimes you have to go to Fed Ex headquarters out in the sticks. I got home about ten minutes before the Fed Ex lady showed up with the package. But then I had to go back to Kaiser at 2:00 PM to get the cat scan. I'm not suppose to eat or drink anything for four hours prior to taking the cat scan, but at 10:25 AM I took a bite out of a plum before remembering the no eating and throwing the rest of the plum away. So I'm thinking, "oh, no! I ate something three hours and thirty-five minutes before the cat scan, will that screw things up?" To be on the safe side I called the radiology department at Kaiser, and they told me I was OK, that I didn't have to postpone the cat scan twenty-five minutes, so I really wouldn't have eaten for four hours. O.K., now it's 3:30 PM. I'm back from having my cat scan. It was all right. The technician had a tough time finding a vein she could use. She also asked me a lot of personal questions, which I welcome, it makes time go faster, and told me my foster kid was lucky to have me as a guardian. I don't know if she is, but it was nice to hear that anyway. 9:57:22 AM