Here We Glow Again

This morning I’ll be going to the hospital to have another test done. It’s called a “Wall Motion Study” which may sound like a test that should be done in the Wind Tunnel at Western but it’s actually a heart test. I did a search on the internet to get more information. Here’s what I found…

It’s really called a gated nuclear angiogram which is a technique using radioisotopes to measure the pump function of the heart. “The red blood cells are tagged with a radioactive material (here we glow again). As the red blood cells circulate through the heart, counts of their radioactivity are obtained with a gamma camera. A computer constructs moving pictures of the heart by timing and counting radioactivity throughout the contraction and relaxation phases of the heart’s cardiac cycle.”

Some of the drugs I will be taking can cause heart problems in a small percentage of people. Today’s test will provide a baseline that will be used to compare future tests as I go through more rounds of chemotherapy.

I’d better get ready to go.

me

P.S. Donna – I will try to include more pictures in future entries…just for you.