Rant #3,903: The Waiting Is the Hardest Part

I had my latest catscan on Tuesday.

This one was a little different than what I had had previously.

Usually, you go in, they put you into the machine--

And 1, 2, 3, it is done and over with.

This time, I had to fast for a few hours, and later when I was there, I had to be injected with yellow dye to provide better contrast for what they are trying to see.

This procedure took a bit longer, maybe 10 or 15 minutes while I was in the machine for four separate readings.

Once the dye was injected into me, they said I might feel a slight sensation of heat, and even feel like I had to go to the bathroom, but I got through it, and got dressed and drove home.

About a minute or two from home, I felt that I needed a bathroom, not in an emergency, but I just needed one, and I parked the car, went upstairs, and yes, just let's say that I needed to go.

I just hope they were able to see what they were looking for--I needed this done for the urologist--and that I can move on from this--

Where today, as you are reading this, I am in the dermatologist's office, ready to be seen about that cancer that I had removed from my scalp.

The doctor will look at that--it appears to have healed, but is still quite sensitive, as I found out when I got a haircut the other day--and he will look at other areas that need to be removed too.

Not necessarily cancer, but other skin abnormalities that I might have.

Just about every one of them simply needs to be removed, and are not cancerous, but I really don't mind him tending to this, because the last time, he found something pretty bad--

And it was taken care of.

I have learned over time that even if you do everything healthy, you have absolutely no idea what is happening in your body to upset your system.

You need to get everything checked out to make sure you are running at full capacity.

I know that I am not at that level just yet, but I can get closer by being checked out and given a clean bill of health, and hopefully these things that I have had to do the past two days will show that loud and clear.

If not, then I have to make sure they are taken care of.

If you do not have your health, you have nothing.

It cuts across all of us.

What is the sense of having so much money that you can't enjoy it as a healthy person?

I want to be healthy, so let's see what these tests bring to the fore.

So let me cut this Rant a little short, because as you are reading this, in real time, I am sitting in the dermatologist's office, waiting to be looked at.

I am also waiting for the report about my catscan.

I am nervous about the two of them.

Wish me luck.