Cancer Update - 8/23/10

I had a chest scan scheduled for 10:30am. The oncologist office setup the appointment at a facility that was about 20 minutes away from their office. They wanted to do the scan at our doctor's office but our insurance wouldn't agree to pay for it there. They could have scheduled the scan to be done at a UAB because we have it in our file that are expenses there are covered 100% there. The scan was with contrast, which means I was injected dye to allow the cancer cells to show up more prominently. They dye creates a warm se sensation all over your body. It also, in the words of the lab tech "makes you feel like you have urinated on yourself". It's definitely a weird experience. Afterward, we drove 90 miles back home.