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I dealt with the radioactive injections today. They hurt quite a lot. Rather than having me come back three hours later, they asked me to wait an hour for them to check that everything had gone to where it was supposed to. Cordelia had gone with me and Mom to the appointment, and she didn't want to stay, but we had no phone service since we were deep in the hospital and in the basement. We had wireless, so I sent Scott an email that he never saw, asking him to come pick Cordelia up. I even sent emails to my sisters, asking them to call Scott and tell him to read his email. None of that was effective, so Cordelia was stuck in the waiting room with us until we got out of there about 5:20.

Each of the two procedures took about ten minutes, so I don't know what the scheduler was talking about to tell me that the shorter one would be forty five minutes to an hour.

We did a lot of walking because we had to drop Scott's FMLA paperwork off at the Cancer Center before my appointment. That was quite a hike. Then we walked back. Then we discovered that Radiology Reception C is almost the furthest thing in that direction from the elevators. Thank goodness the hospital has adequate signage. Getting lost would have been very, very easy.

The two sports bras Scott ordered for me arrived. Unfortunately, I'm too big for the larger of the two, and that's as large as that brand goes. It took me about five minutes to get the zipper to catch and start zipping. Then, as soon as I got to the top, the zipper peeled apart from the bottom up. I had to get Scott to come to extract me from the dratted thing. I have no idea how I'm going to get a zipper front sports bra that actually fits by Monday when all I can do is to send my mother looking at local stores.

Scott bought food from the Syrian place for dinner. That was tasty. Even Cordelia enjoyed it. After dinner, Mom went off to her friend's house. Scott and I sat around for a while. Then he and I and Cordelia went to Orange Leaf for fro-yo. I've been wanting to do that for a couple of weeks, but the timing never worked out before.

kyrielle sent me a fun card and an Amazon gift card. I spent a good bit of time this evening deciding what to order. I ended up with some DVDs of stuff that I've seen before and liked a lot, enough that I think watching those shows will be comforting when I'm kind of spacy.

I talked to my sister for an hour this evening. She was feeling a little tipsy because she had a beer with dinner (it's her birthday today). She told me that some of the women she knows online who had lumpectomies think the procedure I had today hurt more than anything else in the whole process. I kind of suspect I won't agree. The three shots hurt like hell, but the pain only lasted a minute or so.

We're getting up around 6 a.m. tomorrow. Scott and I both need to shower. I won't be washing my hair, but I need to be thorough otherwise (and I washed my hair tonight). We'll get Cordelia up around 7 a.m. That's plenty of time for her to eat and get dressed.

Scott's going to drop me off at East Ann Arbor at 8 a.m. then take Cordelia to her friend's apartment. After that, he'll come back. I'm not sure when Mom and Scott's sister will arrive or how everyone will find each other. I'm a little concerned-- They said they'd want a urine specimen, and I'm going to be pretty darned dehydrated. I'm not sure I'll be able to oblige. Of course, if what they want it for is a pregnancy test, I will point out that my period started Monday and has only just ended. I'm pretty thoroughly convinced that I'm not pregnant.