Spent Wed & Thurs this week mostly at the Royal Free hospital, doing a whole barrage of tests to see if I had amyloidosis to add to the joys of myeloma. ECG and Echo, several scans, a walking test, whole body scan (including fat count, cheers for that), radioactive injection and final scan before getting the news.<\/p>\n
Thank god – I don't have amyloidosis. So while my bone marrow biopsy showed some deposits of amyloid, it doesn't count as full blown disease. Bloody marvellous.<\/p>\n
Almost as exciting was – that I swallowed my first ever capsules!! They can't do the radioactive scan unless you take – I think it was potassium iodide? – as this disperses the radioactive stuff. If you don't take it, the scan shows a big black splurge around your thyroid as it all gravitates there. Anyway – they got me 2 nice M&S yogurts, with fruit to disguise the capsule and I SWALLOWED it. And several of its friends over the next 2 days, as you have to take 6 in total. In the past I have even had to have different courses of chemo than the recommended ones due to my inability to swallow capsules, which certain chemo comes as.<\/p>\n
So who knows, maybe it's the start of a whole new world?? As I stand her trying to bite a huge antibiotic tablet into 4 pieces, because I had to say no to the doc's recommended course of capsules for my never-ending cough, maybe next time it might even be a yes…<\/p>\n
On both counts – whoop whoop!!! x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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