I had the bone biopsy yesterday. Got there at 11:30. They prepped me which was a lot of me laying there. Got the IV in, then the dr told me what they were going to do and how they were going to do it. Yes I was scared to death and thank god they sedated me.

It took about a half our to get me all set up with the CT machine. They finally gave me versed and fentanyl. They didn’t have to drill or hammer into a bone. I’m not sure that’s a good thing or not. So they suck the guide needle into my hip bone and then the smaller needle in the guide needle to extract the sample. The actual procedure only took 26 minutes.

Went back and they kept me for about an hour before they let me leave. Yes Pete drove me home. And even stopped to get something to eat since it was 3:30pm and I hadn’t eaten anything since 7pm the day before. When I got home I basically slept the rest of the day.

I didn’t feel any pain but for the amount of drugs they gave me…

Now today I woke up feeling like I had a hang over and there was mild pain at the site. It eased up as the day went by. You know I had so many people tell me how barbaric it was and how painful it was going to be. They said I would be down for at least a week and it would take like 3 weeks for it to heal. So of course I was scared to death. Like I did NOT want to do that. So what this means is never listen to people regarding procedures and medications!

Anyhoo. Since we already know that the biopsy is positive, the main purpose of this was to see if it was ER/PR+ HER2- like my original breast cancer. This will determine how to treat it. So I’m kind of hoping that it is the same and we can get this bitch under control. I am kind of hoping that we can get it in remission. I know we will never cure it in my life time, but I’m hopeful we will be able to control it.