Friday, August 15, 2008

Results from the test...

Okay, so last Thursday I had a bone scan done. I went to the doctor yesterday to find out what it showed.

My left knee is completely inactive, there is no activity, which means theres nothing bad happening there - no cancer, no inflammation, nothing.

My right knee showed signs of slight activity.

Let me explain a little bit. The test was pretty simple. They injected dye into my blood stream and it soaked into my tissue immediately, then a few hours later I returned for the bone scan and the dye had soaked into my bones. The dye itself is clear and is only meant to pick up "hot spots" or "problem areas" or "active areas" which are all the same thing, just different sayings that may or may not be familiar to you. It means that my cells or something are going into overdrive to make something better [im assuming], and the dye showed up, but not too bright, on my right femur just above my kneecap. Woo, yay me, etc.

The fact that activity was only shown in the one knee is actually a good thing, because that rules out bone cancer. Big worry lifted off mine, and everyone elses, shoulders there. However, I was in a LOT of pain wednesday night and had to be picked up early from church. It hurt so bad I was crying. I havent cried because of pain since my tonsilectomy back in 7th grade. So I told my doctor about the pain, and he said that the cysts shouldn't be causing it so hopefully he can get a look at what might be.

Today I have to have an MRI and a CT scan [people call them catscans] of my right femur and my right femur posterior or something weird like that, so yeah. I'm not worried, just really curious about whats going on, haha.

I thank you all for your thoughts and prayers and for reading this. I have to go though... I have to get ready for school.

Have a fantastic day, everyone and God Bless !!


Love Always,
Michelle


Verse of the Day: Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.
~ 1 Corinthians 9:24

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Glad to hear they don't think it is cancer. Hope they find out what is causing the pain soon. We'll keep praying for you. Keep us informed.