Bone Scan Scheduled
Finally got my bone scan scheduled at the hospital — after my doctor's office called me to tell me my insurance told them that a bone scan doesn't need an approval. I could have scheduled it last week! ARGH!!
It's scheduled for Wednesday, November 17th. They're doing a bilateral upper extremities scan, meaning, they inject both of my wrists to compare and contrast my healthy wrist to my not-so-healthy wrist. They inject me with the radioactive goo at 9am, and I go back in to get scanned at 1:30pm, to give the radioactive goo time to be absorbed into my bones.
A bone scan was explained to me like the opposite of an x-ray. Where an x-ray shoots radiation into you, a bone scan reads the radiation coming off of you. It's a nuclear test.
I gotta say, that's kind of scary… 
Not that I'm going to be blowing any light bulbs or growing a third eye, but I wonder what a Geiger Counter would do while I'm shot up with that stuff? It's supposed to leave your system within 24 hours. Anyway, my doc said he'll personally call me right away to discuss the results. I'm hoping I can see my own scans before I leave the hospital. I mean, are bone scans as fricken' secretive as MRI's? Dang, trying to see MY OWN MRI was like I'd asked to hold audience with President Obama.
They showed it to me, but it was under duress, and I never saw it again, after that brief 20 seconds of the radiologist scrolling through pics I couldn't discern. I mean, I get it, the radiologist cannot discuss findings with me right after the pictures come out. But I just want to see the darn things. Why can't I examine them? I'm curious. I've never seen an MRI film before. So what's with the dang secrecy? I can see my x-rays right away. Heck, I even saw my father's CT scan after his stroke — his doc wasn't douchy and let my sister and I see it.
So WHAT's with the MRI?? Is it some secret technology they don't want to fall into the hands of Zee Germans? SRSLY, radiologists, can anyone explain that to me?!?! LOL
~~Becka
