through the pain there is some good

Unfortunately, I have been having a lot of pain since the procedure. It has become quite discouraging. The percocet has not been alleviating the pain at all.......so I stopped taking them. I pulled out some old dilaudid (from my November surgery) and tried that. It definitely seems to work better than the percocet. I finally called Dr. Nutting on Tuesday and he ordered a CT for Wednesday morning (this morning at 7:30). I showed up for the cat scan at 7:15 to drink my oral contrast only to be informed that they will be doing IV contrast and the scan is not till 8:30......groan. At 8:15 I was taken back to the scanner. I laid down on the narrow bed only to curl up in a spasmodic fit of pain. Once we got through that, I laid flat only to be overcome with emotions (yes, I started to cry). To be back at the Sally Jobe envision center (where this whole mess started) was quite emotional. Finally, IV was started and scan was completed. I pulled it together and went home to wait. Officially, they found a hematoma in the area that I am experiencing all this pain. Dr. Nutting seems to think it will resolve on it's own....I will just have to suck it up I suppose. The good news is........drum role please........he also said the large tumor is responding well to the Sir spheres. In fact he said he was quite impressed at how early and how well it was responding. Shrink baby shrink! God is good, all the time!