CT Scan

The CT (Computerized Tomography) scan was scheduled for Friday October 10 at 5pm. It's upstairs at Roswell, but I had to have blood tests done first, at Phlebotomy.

At the CT clinic I drank a Barium Sulphate suspension (tastes like a berry smoothie), to illiminate the digestive tract for the CT scan. Then I waited for 45 minutes for it to spread through my system. When I was called in I had an IV line inserted but no fluids yet. I was allowed to wear my own clothes.

Then I was taken to the CT chamber, it looks like a long table with a doughnut shaped chamber at one end. When I was settled comfortably, the iodine was inserted into the IV line and I was asked not to move. The iodine is a contrast dye used to identify whether my lymph nodes are enlarged and if there is any liver or spleen involvement.

The table moves back and forth through the tunnel several times and then I was done. I had no after effects at all and was able to go home.