Prepping for the body scan..

Two days down, one to go. Yesterday we got stuck in traffic on the way to the hospital, which made us almost a half an hour late, but my day consisted of stat labs. Mostly waiting on a pregnancy test, which came back negative before I could get my first thyrogen injection. Even though these labs were stat, the turn around time for the pregnancy test was almost an hour and a half. So we waited in the doctors office and I got caught up on the latest news over the marathon bomber. Finally after getting my injection I was free to go. Now I had to get this shot in the butt, and it hurt! I feel like I did some major gluteal workouts!
Today I didn't have to be there until 11 but there was still congestion coming into the tunnels. At least this time we left 2 hours early. I got my shot then I had to wait 2 hours and head over to the nuclear med department. They called me back and I walked what seemed like a mile, into the Pittsburgh children's wing. The radiology tech walked my husband and I into a consultation room and vaguely went over what was going to happen the next day. Today I was only going to take a tracer dose of RIA, go home let it circulate through my body and come back the next day for the scan. Now since this was only a tracer dose I was not a danger to anyone so I could still mingle among the public. The tech brought this little blue pill in a clear tube with a biohazard sticker on it and a glass of water for me to wash it down it with and the words "bombs away" pun intended I'm sure. The pill was stuck in this container, so I gave it a gentle tap and the pill came out and fell on the floor! Son of a bitch! The tech picked the pill up off the floor and handed back to me to take. I'm thinking in my head, shit I really don't want to take this damn thing after it just fell on the floor, but I bet they had to order it from an outside pharmacy. I looked at the tech and said to her "I sure hope housekeeping does a good job!" And I took it, and they sent me home. Now they told me that my therapeutic dose might make me sick, but they didn't say anything about the tracer dose, and it made me very sick to my stomach. I had to rush home to get my prescription of zofran and take a nap so I'm a little anxious about the therapeutic dose. Here's to hoping for good results on the scan!