Today has been an amusing day in the seemingly never-ending medical testing that I've been subjected to of late. It started out not-so-good with a nurse from the hospital calling to give me the pertinent details for next week's liver biopsy. First the rules: I must immediately cease and desist taking my multi-vitamin until after the test. Same goes for my as-needed migraine meds. Then the plan: I must get to the hospital 45 minutes sooner than I thought, stay at the hospital at least 1.5 hours later than I thought, and I'm not allowed to drive or sign legal documents for the rest of the day because apparently I'm going to be stoned out of my gourd so that I don't mind the giant needle they will be sticking into my side. Plus I have to come in for some preliminary lab work this week that I wasn't aware of. Great....

But a little while ago things started looking up: The nurse who has been my contact throughout all of these tests called and said that I might not have to have the biopsy after all. Wooooo hooooo!!! I didn't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, but I just had to ask what the source of this potential reprieve happened to be. The answer? As I understand it, a different radiologist. The radiologist who will be doing the biopsy looked at my oh-so-many scans and apparently concluded that a biopsy is not necessarily in order. (Again I say, Wooooo hooooo!!!) So this radiologist called my doctor up for a chat and they decided that I should first have a "tagged scan" which may rule out the presence of the possible-whateverioma identified by the radiologist(s) who did all of those other tests. So the bad news is that I will have yet another test which will be scheduled for some time this week, but the good news -- the really, really good news -- is that I might be off the hook with respect to the biopsy!

Radiologist #2, whoever you are, THANK YOU!!!