O-H-I-O and a C-T Scan

When I last visited my college friend and her husband we went to the Ohio State's Football game. It was a lot of fun. I also noted how often they spell OHIO. The love to do it. The pace of this visit, however, was quite different and wonderful. My college friend has the most adorable 10 month old and we did lots of activities revolving around him. We went to the park to swing on the swings, we went to the zoo and he totally loved the kangaroos (one hopped onto the sidewalk, it was pretty cool), and we just hung around and played legos. It was a fantastic change of pace. We did adult things too, like ate our weight in Jeni's Spendid Ice Creams and go to the AAA baseball game. But mostly we ate Jeni's ice cream. When I was diagnosed with cancer my friend sent me four pints of the ice cream and I ate an entire pint of the salty caramel for dinner. My mother thought this was a sign of depression, but I explained I just have a hard time with portion control and Jeni's. It is a good thing they are only in Columbus or the dreaded tamoxifen weight gain really would happen.

Because I like to schedule my vacations with wake up calls to return to normalcy quicker at the end of the work day I had a follow up CT.  Just checking on the 4mm of inflammation from April to see what it is up to. They have been waiting to see if the follow up could coincide with any other testing in the study to decrease my radiation exposure, but nothing panned out. There was a gentlemen sitting next to me in the waiting room with a PICC line that he needed for his chemotherapy treatment tomorrow. He was not enjoying his mochachino shake. This encounter left me grateful x 2. Thankfully, I didn't have to have any mochachino flavored barium or iv contrast that makes me feel like I peed my pants. It made for a very quick scan. They asked me to hold my breath twice and we were done. Piece of cake. Will get the results tomorrow.

I woke up singing this song today. If you've ever been to an OSU game, in the middle of the chorus they spell out OHIO. No idea why.  I guess I still have Ohio on the brain.