05/30/02 Dear Shelly, Wednesday was a very bad, terrible, awful day - the tests themselves were not bad, but the stuff you have to take and have done to you prior to the actual tests are not so much fun...in fact, they are no fun at all. The "sick feeling" doesn't just go away when the test is done...I still feel awful today. I had to drink barrium for 2 hours prior to the test...(CT Scan). While drinking the stuff, they inserted an IV (2 sticks - the first one did not work), and then injected me with something for the Bone Scan...I had to wait extra long for the CT Scan and they used the IV to give me the contrast dye part way through the test...then I had to wait for the Bone Scan...it took a while to do. For both tests, I had to lay on my back on a hard surface (I don't lay on my back even on a comfortable bed - so that was an ordeal). Diahrea set in somewhere in the middle of things from the liquid I was drinking. Straining t...