I was just looking at my first post in a long time and once I got past the 404 error (yes, I’ll get andy to fix that soon) — I looked in the Archive listing and this year I must have posted in Jan, March, and now July — almost on a quarterly basis…
This week I’m headed into a fun whirlwind of trips over to the endocrinologist and hospital — it’s my 2nd annual (and hopefully last ever!!) radiated iodine intake test… (in which I swallow radiated iodine and then they scan my body to see where it gets absorbed, in order to check if there are any remaining thyroid cells left and if so where they are)…
(check July of last year in my blog to read an overly-descriptive account of the experience)
so the schedule is:
Monday — shot #1
Tuesday — shot #2 (these shots cost approx $1000 each… hooray for my kidney stone making things meet the deductible!!)
Wednesday — swallow the radiation (at 7:30am — am likely going to just stay up all night because mornings are NOT my friend — I struggle to be somewhere for 10:30 or 11… can’t even imagine trying to get somewhere that is half an hour away for 7:30am… in rush hour traffic)
Thursday — full body scan
Friday — bloodwork drawn
From Wednesday onwards for about 10 days I’ll be “contagious” or “in quarantine” — hopefully I won’t go crazy… I remember from last year that it’s a very strange thing — because the radiation doesn’t make you *feel* anything different, so I had to keep reminding myself not to do the things that I normally would do (cats in the lap, fix dinner, head to a store or something)…
I thought the 404 was because you hadn’t posted anything – I’ll look to see what the problem is. BTW you want to categorise your posts.
404 thing is now fixed. The redirection plugin wasn’t working properly. You don’t need it so I’ve disabled it. Should be good now.
[...] Kristen was due to go into quarantine for the next 10 days as she undergoes tests to ensure that the cancer in her thyroid has completely gone. They give her some radioactive iodine to swallow which means she is not allowed to be near people. [...]
So glad you’re done with THAT! Welcome back!