Time to head to AZ for the Fiesta Bowl. So excited!!! Oklahoma State finally won our first Big 12 Championship and we are headed to our first BCS game and I get to go! Coming home wont be fun, but hey...sometimes you have to pay a price.
Paul and I got to AZ. It is beautiful!!! We met up with my unlce and I was kidding with him that it took a football game to finally visit. While we were there the weather was perfect and we never had any problems with allergies. We had a great time. We stayed in Scottsdale which seemed to be the hub for everything. Shopping, eating, you name it...they had it. We ate a lot of Mexican food and did try to see some sites. My uncle also drove us around and showed us where the Suns and the Diamondbacks play. He also showed us how to get from the hotel to the Arizona Cardinals stadium. We didn't have to fight traffic!!
On the day of the game hubby and I went looking for health food stores. I needed to get stocked up for the trip home because I wouldn't be able to stop and eat being on the low-iodine diet. We finally found a big health food store and I told Paul that I wished we had a store like that in Stillwater. We dropped off the food (fruit, nuts, rice cakes, Sierra Mist, water, ect..), got dressed and headed to the game.
We got to the stadium, looked around and then went to find our seats and guess who I saw....my new boss. He was sitting a few rows behind Paul and I. So, I went to say hi and decided to tell him about the cancer and that there is a chance it was back. I apologized for not saying anything about it during the interview but I wasn't sure if it was proper or not to bring it up at that time. He told me he already knew and it wasn't a problem. Health and family come first. What a relief. I was so scared it would end up being a problem. I mentioned when the dates were and that most everything would be over before I started the job. I would need time off to get my results but that was all.
Side note: what a great game. Oklahoma State won it's first BCS Championship....yes I am very proud of my Alma Mater!
Sometimes the truth hurts....
It was late when we got back to the hotel and we knew it was going to be hard to get to sleep. We had to because we planned to get up early for that long drive ahead of us, but we were still too excited from the win. Considering I had to start the diet on the way home we made the decision to drive straight through. The only stops would be for gas and to use the restroom. Paul decided to be on the diet with me that way he wouldn't be eating "regular food" in front of me. He is so awesome.
The time came to start making the trips back and forth to OKC. Blood work, Thyrogen injections, tracer dose then the scan. I think I made four trips back and forth in one week. I got to talking to the tech guy that gave me the injections and I told him I was excited Mercy had the Thyrogen. He told me that they had the largest Thyroid Cancer popultion in state of Oklahoma. I wish I knew that when all this started. He went on to say they did there best to always have it in stock and they already had a protocol in place for situations where medications were in shortage. After hearing that, I was so thankful I was turned over to my new doctor.
I loved doing the scan at Mercy it was so much better than doing it at Stillwater Medical Center. Not that the bed you lay on for a scan is comfortable but at Mercy I wasn't strapped in like at Stillwater Medical Center. It was so much more comfortable and they played music. They didn't at SMC. The overall expericence at Mercy compared to SMC was just better. So now that the scan was done we sit and wait for the results and start my new job.
Starting the job helped me get my mind off the possibilty that the cancer had returned. Going home was hard....I would sit and think. I just couldn't imagine that the cancer had returned. Considering everything I went through finding out I had cancer I started making plans in case I had to have surgery or go through treatment again. I wouldn't be able to stay at the apartment if treatment was the choice. We now live in a one bedroom apartment and there would be no way for Paul to stay away from me. He also wouldn't be able to stay anywhere because it was basketball and wrestling season and he would have to work. I thought that since I'm now under the care of Mercy I felt I would be able to be in the hospital during treatment...if need be. I quickly learned to expect the worse and hope for the best.
Well, time to make another trip to the city to get the results...
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