Anyone awake?

[DilemmaDelilah]

I have a CT scan tomorrow as part of my regular cancer checks. I'm not worried about it in the least - I am actually looking forward to it as I want to know whether I have any evidence of cancer or whether it is all gone (for the moment anyway) However I have been told NBM (apart from water) after midnight and to make sure I drink water before my scan, which I wasn't told to do last time, so I'm presuming they want to have a good look at my bowel and bladder. I had/have breast cancer.

The main thing that is bothering me is that I know I'm going to wake up starving (I always do) and my scan isn't until 10am. Small worries I know! Oh, and it's going to be in a mobile scanner which has quite steep steps and I find it difficult to manage stairs at the moment. Not impossible, but difficult.

It's going to be good to find out the results of my scan. It will either be reassuring or if something is found at least we will know and it can be dealt with. I'm very much a 'wanting to know where the spider is' kind of person.

How are the rest of you?

Am I fitst in the door???

Am awake zmas will be scattering ashes tmrw. Am feeling like it should be important, but it deels trivial.

I'm going to bed shortly. I have a medical procedure coming up that is nil by mouth - not bothered about eating but I don't know how I will manage without being able to drink water. I agree with you about wanting to know! Wishing you the best for the scan and I hope you can get a bit of sleep tonight or at least a good physical rest.

Compared to the previous replies mine is trivial. Teenagers having a sleepover. Lots of good wishes for the previous posters

I’m up.

get something really nice to have as a brunch lunch tomorrow.

good luck for tomorrow. It sounds though that whatever the results are you have the right mindset.

Hello @Saz12 . Sad day for you then, but perhaps it doesn't feel as important as all the other bits have already happened. Think of it as the final chapter and a way to achieve closure and to allow yourself to start thinking of how to move forward.

@Saz12 I'm sorry for your loss

I’m up ! If you need to talk… I’m awake !

Wishing you all the best.
I have seen a mobile scanner today for the first time ever, they don’t look the best but it’s amazing how they’ve seen a problem and made these mobile scanners happen so you are waiting months ! X

@Tr1skel1on no chance of sleep for you then!
We are planning on having brunch in the hospital restaurant after my scan. The food is usually pretty good - if you avoid the things that are made with the leftovers of the previous days roast! Roast days are Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

@Ginkypig , I have black pudding, fancy tomatoes, and the other bad breakfast essentials!

@DilemmaDelilah , mucho sunshine. I hope you sleep soon and manage a long lie in. Xx

Thanks for the good wishes.

Im feeling sad. Relationship might be ending but maybe is for best. He’s not doing me any good. This time last year we were just getting together. Special person, to need to control my shouting at him & I need to be cool and not phone him tomorrow. We will talk anyway but I am losing the plot.

@TheLoudLeader We have two mobile scanners parked outside the Oncology centre so I have walked past them many many times 😁. I was lucky enough to be offered a cancellation for tomorrow, so I haven't had too much time to think about it.

Good luck with medical procedure @DilemmaDelilah thank you for starting this thread. Also to others with medical things, good luck. Sorry for your loss @Saz12

@historicalweaving in my own experience - if a person or a relationship is making you into a person that you don't want to be, that is when to call it a day.
it might be making you an anxious person, or an angry person, or a victim, or anything... but if that is not who you want to be then think about whether you can be who you want to be without them - and whether life is better with, or without, them. Nobody knows that but you. Good luck.

Thank you all for your good wishes. I'm going to try to get some sleep now - you do the same (especially @Tr1skel1on with her noisy teenagers!)

Thank you @DilemmaDelilah you speak sense. My stomach is in knots but I don’t know about life without them. Tricky. Thank you. Good luck tomorrow & sleep well