Oh joy! Waiting for this MRI to get started. Nothing like seeing posters and banners everywhere about breast cancer awareness.  Believe me…..I am fully aware of breast cancer! Hahaha.  It is October which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month AND my Birthday month.  I am all for breast awareness, but being diagnosed and having to go through breast cancer in October is too much info being plastered EVERYWHERE.  I went to pick up my blood pressure pills and what do you know!  My prescription bottle had a pink cap on it to remind me of Breast Cancer Awareness.

I did not want to be here at the hospital for this MRI.  I have been trying to schedule most of my office visits when I am not working including this MRI which I scheduled at 7:00 PM.  I had a breast MRI done 6 years prior and it was HORRIBLE!   It was performed at another place and it was the most degrading procedure I have ever had in my life.  My boobs were basically hanging through holes while I was laying on a stretcher.  No coverage at all.  I had a break while I was in the machine and I looked back and saw 6 people gawking at me through a glass window and 3 were MALES!!!  All 6 people didn’t know I was looking at them and they were having a grand ole time, laughing, talking and when they saw me looking at them, they were all embarrassed and looked away.  I was just about ready to slide out of that machine and screw this whole thing.  After MRI was done 6 years ago, I did get the results which basically showed NOTHING.  It was all questionable and I was to have another MRI performed in 6 months and there was NO WAY I was going through that humiliating, degrading process ever again.  I elected for a BSGI to be performed which was completely new and those results came back negative.

While I was waiting for this MRI to be performed, I was all alone.  Ray was on his way home from work.  A radiology tech came out to the waiting room where I was sitting by myself and she called my name and I got up and followed her down the long hallway to the room where the loud machine was, waiting for me.  The tech was super nice and I told her my experience with the last MRI that was done at Epic Imaging.  The tech could not believe it and how unprofessional those techs were in handling me as a patient.  I just thought it was the norm of how MRI goes when it comes to breasts.

This MRI was night and day compared to the last MRI that was performed 6 years ago.  My breasts were constantly covered, even when my boobs were dangling out of holes while I was on a stretcher, facing down, there was a sheet and towel covering my breasts so no one could see my boobs.   The whole MRI process was done quickly.  I was so exhausted when MRI was being performed and since it was around 7:30 PM, I was falling asleep while the loud machine of the MRI was taking pictures.  Sometimes the machine sounded like an automatic gun machine firing off.

The whole process was was easy and not degrading at all.  The tech was wonderful and I couldn’t believe it was just her and no one else, like the last place who had 6 people looking at you through a glass window.  I was going to get my results in a few days from the breast surgeon a my next appointment.

As I walked out to the waiting area, there was Ray, waiting for me.  Boy was I glad to see him.  I ran up to him and he had his arms wide open and I couldn’t wait to be in his arms while he was holding me.  I was so happy to see him and I felt so secure and so loved and not alone anymore.