"Today was the day for my M.U.G.A. (pronounced MUGA) test. I was able to go to the appointment by myself and that was a good thing. I wasn't however happy when they announced that it required another IV and that made me weary.
They did however give me a snack, a drink and a warm blanket while I was waiting for them to get to the next step of the test.
Once the IV was in place, they draw a portion of blood. Mix it with radioactive stuff and then shoot it back into my IV/arm. Then under the MRI machine to take pictures of things lighting up in my heart to make sure that my heart can endure the Chemo treatments.
The technical terms were Cardiac blood pooling imaging, gated equilibrium, planar, single study at rest or stress with motion study plus injection!
She told me what MUGA meant and I couldn't repeat that to save my life. I only knew what they were technically going to do when the letter in the mailbox from the 'insurance experts' decided this test WASN'T 'Medically Necessary'.
I had an ok day with it till that letter, that was the real punch in the gut for me." ~Brenda
It Is Finished!!
Thursday, February 18, 2010
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