2 busy mums/moms, with 2 active kids each, living in 2 separate countries and diagnosed with 2 different cancers- lung and breast.
Join them on their cancer healing journeys while raising kids in an expat world.
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2 busy mums/moms, with 2 active kids each, living in 2 separate countries and diagnosed with 2 different cancers- lung and breast.
Join them on their cancer healing journeys while raising kids in an expat world.
Series 1 Episode 4
Scanxiety-Obviously Fenway Park is for Baseball!
Undergoing an MRI scan can be challenging. Certainly, you feel scared and have a million questions about the process. What if you have to go through not one, not two but several scans? As a cancer patient, you will need to undergo several MRI scans in your body parts including the brain. The scans are essential in the management and monitoring of your situation. In this episode, we shares our experiences with MRI scans to help you understand it.
In this episode, we discuss:
• Learning about MRI areas and pre-scan anxiety
• Understanding the MRI of the brain
• The importance of MRI scan in inspiring hope to a cancer patient.
• Keeping up with the cancer fight
• The chemical menopause
• The scan side effects
Key Milestones from the Episode
[00:15]: MRI scan areas and the anxieties involved.
[02:37]: Angie's MRI of the brain experience.
[10:33]: MRI scan as cancer monitoring tool.
[12:58]: Keeping up with the cancer fight like an injured footballer.
[22:17]: The chemical menopause.
[25:27]: Constipation and other scan side effects.
Key quotes from the episode
• “I'm having these like daydreams where you know, that they look at my scans and like the cancer is gone.”
• “I forget that I have cancer and then it all just kind of feels like a bad dream and then you're back and you're like, oh wait, no, this is reality.”
• “But then again, like I'm in chemical menopause now taking my, expensive drug that I'm on to get my ovaries out soon.”
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In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:
· https://breastcancernow.org/
· https://www.lung.org/lung-health-and-diseases/lung-disease-lookup/lung-cancer/
· https://www.mlb.com/redsox/ballpark
· https://www.blood.co.uk/
Mommy Had A Little Cancer
2 busy mums/moms, with 2 active kids each, living in 2 separate countries and diagnosed with 2 different cancers- lung and breast.
Join them on their cancer healing journeys while raising kids in an expat world.