ECHO!

Since cancer medications (Chemicals--- we're now calling them that for the children's sake)  <See below>   can do a number on your heart and since the location of my tumor is right next to my heart,  Doctor thought it would be good to do an Echo before I start Chemo.  

<My friend Katie said that she told her daughter they were chemicals---good idea because I don't want to call it medicine and for Sadie to see me suffering and sick from the "medicine." Because "medicine" is supposed to make you feel better.  So chemicals it is... >

I had two days to get the echo done.  Thank goodness they had ONE appointment before Friday down in Provo.  I took it.   I haven't been sleeping the last couple nights.  It's hard when you are jumping into the unknown.  

So my appointment for the Echo was today.   An echo is really cool.   It's an ultrasound of your heart.  Since I'm very curious, I ask a lot of questions and luckily my radiologist tech was really cool and would just explain everything to me.  She also added in random facts about the heart.   Like, did you know that 90% of the population have at least 1 leaky valve in their heart?  Since the heart is so strong, it makes up for that.  

Good times.   I like appointments that aren't painful.  

Of course she couldn't say anything about the results, but she did say that if there was anything emergent, she wasn't allowed to let me leave the hospital.  So, I guess I wasn't in bad shape!  

Next step--- CHEMOTHERAPY!  Freaking out just a little bit.