PET scans don’t bother me as far as claustrophobia, it’s the noise!! All this whooshing, roaring, humming, buzzing going on just inches from you all around kinda freaked me out. The techs gave me a choice of music to listen to, but that couldn’t drown out the noise most times. And it took so long!
Our hospital is now strictly enforcing a policy that any woman 55 years (!!) or younger MUST have a pregnancy blood test before any radiation is administered for scans!! Aye Curumba! That now adds an additional hour or so to the overall test time. Crazy. Kinda p*ssed me off. Told the tech that there was NO WAY IN H*LL I could be pregnant, that it’s been so long for me that I didn’t think I knew how to do it any more! LOL
It was all in vain, still had to do the test. Guess what?
I wasn’t pregnant!
Got my hair cut Friday evening. It was just a half inch TOO SHORT to donate to Locks of Love! I burst into tears. I had so wanted something good to come of this. I was totally ok with getting my head shorn until then. I cried thru the whole deal. My stylist left a little on top. And she didn’t charge me, what a sweety. She knew what was going on, her mom had just been thru it, too. She’s fine now.
Afterwards my always smartypants daughter said: “Wow Mom, your roots are really showing now!”
; )
Here’s a link for the beret pattern we’ll be using:
http://www.nancysnotions.com/text/content/pages/GailsCKBeret.html
Super easy! My daughter and I are gonna make a couple for us and to get a feel for construction, then we’ll get busy making about a dozen pink ones.
Dear Jilly —
Sorry your hair wasn’t long enough. A half inch doesn’t seem to be that much of a difference. You’d think a long shock of hair would still be okay.
Glad you got through it anyhow there, lady.