I am so glad you don't have it! I know how this feels...I went through this the past year twice now....once in my chest but ultrasound confirmed it to be nothing and in my neck...I had to have surgery for that and waiting that week for the biopsy to come back from the tumours was just stressful. I was all strong and brave until I was whirring around alone in that MRI machine and then I suddenly felt like Terms of Endearment and imagined my mother running through the halls yelling MY DAUGHTER NEEDS HER PAIN SHOT.
Now I have a very jagged scar on my neck. The last person who asked me what happened was shocked to find out I had been in a knife fight. I totally won.
I am so glad you are ok! And we just say no to probes :(
Urgh! There really is no feeling of 'creepy isolation' quite like being in an MRI machine! Sometimes I'll be out in the middle of nowhere taking photos and it'll start to get dark and I'll get lost on my way back to the car and I'll stumble upon an abandoned farm and then I'll hear a weird sound and then it'll get totally dark and I'll be trudging over desolate fields by moonlight with only the howling wind and the faint blue light from my rapidly dying phone and I'll hear that sound again and I'll tell myself that it's just an animal and then I'll eventually find the road and get back to my car only I can't find my keys and I'll hear footsteps on the gravel nearby... and I'll think to myself: meh, could be worse, I could be in that bloody MRI machine again.
If I do need surgery I'll end up with a scar in my groin. Perhaps I could tell people I was in a... cock fight.
Erm, not that I randomly expose my groin... anymore.
But, yes. You're right. I'm very glad that I don't have cancer. That we don't have cancer! :D
THIS is why I love your brain. MRI machines!! And then she injected me with dye and said "this is going to feel like you're wetting yourself but you're not" and I looked at her and said REALLY IS THIS REAL LIFE? Who makes something with a side effect like that? ISN'T IT ENOUGH I THINK I HAVE CANCER RIGHT NOW?
And the whirring darkness machine. I could either pretend I was abducted by aliens or imagine the Terms of Endearment music swell up and a tiny tear out of the corner of my eye because I was feeling the dye doing horrible things and I was going to die alone in an MRI MACHINE while RUSTY WAS IN THE FIELD THINKING HE HAD IT BETTER.
Promise me if you have surgery, you'll have trousers made to show the scar.
My doctor keeps a picture of my tumours on his cellphone to show other doctors. He was like IT'S SO COOL HOW BIG THEY WERE WHEN I PULLED THEM OUT OF YOUR NECK.
It really figures that the one time someone shows their friends my picture on a cellphone and is that excited it's tumours. Yay.
Oh, and speaking of Terms of Endearment! The crazed look on Shirley MacLaine's face throughout that scene is the very same look worn by my mother since she found out about 'the lumps'.
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Now I have a very jagged scar on my neck. The last person who asked me what happened was shocked to find out I had been in a knife fight.
I totally won.
I am so glad you are ok!
And we just say no to probes :(
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If I do need surgery I'll end up with a scar in my groin. Perhaps I could tell people I was in a... cock fight.
Erm, not that I randomly expose my groin... anymore.
But, yes. You're right. I'm very glad that I don't have cancer. That we don't have cancer! :D
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And the whirring darkness machine. I could either pretend I was abducted by aliens or imagine the Terms of Endearment music swell up and a tiny tear out of the corner of my eye because I was feeling the dye doing horrible things and I was going to die alone in an MRI MACHINE while RUSTY WAS IN THE FIELD THINKING HE HAD IT BETTER.
Promise me if you have surgery, you'll have trousers made to show the scar.
My doctor keeps a picture of my tumours on his cellphone to show other doctors. He was like IT'S SO COOL HOW BIG THEY WERE WHEN I PULLED THEM OUT OF YOUR NECK.
It really figures that the one time someone shows their friends my picture on a cellphone and is that excited it's tumours. Yay.
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