Bed☆Rest☆Mommy

Before we continue on, let’s go back and cover some of the appointments and experiences I’ve gone through up to this point.

Tonight lets start with the myleogram. Some information on a myleogram for those who do not know what it is:  Go here if interested.

I was nervous as can be when the big day arrived. A needle going into your spine didn’t sound like appealing at all! But, the day went better than I could have hoped it would. I had a wonderful man with me that day, well, make that two, Mike  (my hubby) and the Radiology nurse who looked after me that day, his name was Daniel. He was very good at his job, and told me what a wonderful patient I was. That it’s refreshing to come along patients who do make the best of the situation. Which, I did, in my own goofy way. I was pleasant, despite the pain, and even made a few small jokes, that seemed to amuse them and the docs.

At one point, when they got the first xray up on the screen so they could monitor where the needle was going, they all froze, eyes big and looked at me. Which made me say, did I do something wrong? This got a chuckle and the response of, no honey, it’s just not every day we see a case like yours. Things paused from there, as the stand in doctor went back into the hall and came back with a 3rd year resident. Who, kindly asked me if he could sit in and observe. I said, sure, if you answer a question for me. He looked puzzled, and said, yes. I asked him, is being a resident anything like they show on Greys Anatomy? I kid you not, this skinny (cute btw) resident got a very good laugh out loud response out of that, and replied with, well, the drama is definitely there!

So, on with the test. They finished prepping me, I had to lay on my stomach with my feet in straps. With the numbing, I wouldn’t say it was downright painful, but I could feel mostly a lot of pressure, the pain did come here and there as she worked around the mess in there and went farther in. But I kept it together, took my deep breaths. And in went the dye. Then, they had to tilt the table forward (me being almost upside down), then backwards, (me being right side up) and I had a washcloth under my neck at one point, to keep the dye from going to my head, or something. The whole positions were pretty uncomfortable.

Ok, with all that done, off to the cat scan room. I have to say, cat scans are way much better than an MRI, you’re not as closed in, it’s not as loud. And kind of amusing to watch the lights and window thing that spun around and around. And speaking of spinning, before I got off the gurney into the machine, they had me roll 3 times. I then joked that I felt like a martini. Why I picked that drink of all choices is beyond me, I’ve never even had one. hehe.

After all was said and done off to observation I went. I was greeted by Mike, who fed me a Mr. Goodbar, hot chocolate and gave me a stuffed animal (a huskie dog!)

It was a long, painful ride home. We stopped and attempted to eat, I called back a dear friend who left me a message for the big even, to let me know I was being thought of. And made it home to get through the recovery of it all. It left me with a horrible spinal headache for 9 days. But the ending results were worth it, for as mentioned in my health history post, this is where we learned about the many, many fractures in the bones in my back.

Tomorrow we’ll cover the ENT consult… now that was unpleasant in a completely different way.

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