[chrisy]

First, Julie, I hope that your scans show good news.

Sandy, interesting perspective on scans. I have to agree with you on wanting the scans to show what's really going on, good or bad. In January I had bad scans in every sense of the word - the scan itself was not conclusive AND in the end did show progression. I know that the time waiting for people to figure it out was unbearable. And of course in the absence of real information, my imagination filled in the rest. Not a good scenario.

I know Sandy you're not much into the mind over matter stuff, but I read an interesting book called Healing Words by Dr. Larry Dossey in which he reviewed many studies that were looking at the ability of the mind or prayers to impact the "real" world. It was now an easy read but was pretty provocative stuff. One of the more interesting studies was with people trying to influence the outcomes of a "machine". I think it was a random number generator. The studies indicated that not only could the influencers impact the results remotely and in the future, but also impact results in the past. So you just never know!

That said, I think I'll change my hopes/prayers for good scans to be: "I hope/pray that my scans accurately report a showing of good results"!