June Batz:  

Life See ya on the other side those were the last words I said to my husband as the IV sedative slowly dripped its way into my blood stream..I woke up and felt like I had run into a brick wall doing 70. We arrived at Vanderbilt in Nashville at 5:50 am. I had not eaten since 7 the previous night..I never eat in the morning..Im never hungry..this morning I was moments away from gnawing on the chair in the waiting room.. my stomach growling. I was wide awake and had been since 3:50. The woman greeting us at the surgery clinic was less than cordial, I suppose it was because she had to check everyone in without the benefit of her computer, the power was out so the waiting room was dimly lit. I wasnt sure if we were where we should be and she curtly let me know that Iwould know soon. At 6:15 I was led to my room by "Bob" who vaguely reminded me of Mrs. Garrisson on South Park..I so badly wanted to say "I'm a woMAN" but figured my odd sense of humor would escape him so I kept my mouth shut. The hospital was cold enough to hang meat so I was grateful that when I was told to put the "gown" on that I was allowed to keep my sweats and socks on untilI absolutely had to take them off..Vitals were taken and the IV was roughly place into the vein on my left hand..thank God she was a one stick kinda gal..IVs there hurt like hell! That was at 6:45..Teddy and I waited for an hour, watching the news and listening to what Imus said for the 600th freaking time. At 7:45 they led us down to the nuclear medicine section of the hospital where I was injected 6 times around the tumor with a dye. The tech said to me "I'm not going to lie to you, this is going to hurt" just what I wanted to hear..and she wasnt lying..by the 4th injection I threatened this poor doctors manhood..im not clear on my exact verbage, but i do recall him saying that's ok. They wheeled me out of the room to my poor husband who was waiting for me, I'm in tears and there wasnt anything he could do but ...Expand for more