Cancer Support

I broke the machine. What can I say . . .

I'm glad medical procedures don't freak me out. They grabbed three snippets and the machine refused to spit them out. So I had to rest with the needle in place while they played with the machine, ultimately gave up, then retrieved another machine - and then took 3 more snippets since they weren't sure they could make it give up the tissue samples.

I think they were more freaked out than I was. Biopsies are always a somewhat tense setting - since you don't have one unless they suspect something is wrong, and they are nearly always done while you're awake. They do what they can to make it easy - but it's still nearly always tense. This one was a bit moreso because I'd been speaking enough medical lingo that they knew they couldn't revert to medical lingo to avoid letting it slip that things were not going as planned . . . and, we had already established that I'm a lawyer **shark smiley**

They pretty quickly gave up and asked for my patience while they swapped machines, apologizing over and over and thanking me for my patience. . . but, really, it isn't like I'm about to run anywhere while I'm still attached to the biopsy needle :/