Ultimate Before and After Shots

At 8 am I arrived at Hartford Hospital for my second MRI. By 9:15 I was on my way to the car with the CD of images in my hand. I popped the CD from the April MRI into the PC and looked at the images. This was the first I'd seen the images from either MRI. The fact that they can make me a CD while I'm there is phenomenal. I thought.

The CD loads and runs a viewer to browse through the 1200+ images from each MRI. There are different views, with and without "contrast", from each session. It's impressive - I could see my heart, my ribs, layers of my breasts and in the April MRI, I saw the Mass. It's very large and clearly not supposed to be there. Then the August images: next to nothing to see. There's a marker from when Dr. Lee performed the biopsy. In some images there appears to be NOTHING there, in other angles you can see the residue of the mass but even so, it's clearly a dramatic change.

Incredible... It's really amazing to see the difference. Forgive me if it's TMI (too much information) but I exported some images and made a "Breaking News" graphic hearkening back to my CNN days. ; )

Off to the Post Office to get the CD to Dr. Heerdt at Sloan Kettering for a view.

A somewhat appropriate song came on during my ride home so I'll leave you all with it. Good luck getting it out of your heads. ; )

Well I won't back down, no I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down

Gonna stand my ground, won't be turned around
And I'll keep this world from draggin' me down
Gonna stand my ground and I won't back down

Hey baby, there ain't no easy way out
Hey I will stand my ground
And I won't back down.

Well I know whats right, I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin' me around
But I'll stand my ground and I won't back down

Tom Petty "I Won't Back Down".