So, now I'm kind of scared

The wife had an MRI yesterday as a follow-up to the concerning CT scan she had a couple weeks ago.

Normally when one of us gets a scan, we can see the radiology report in the hospital's online portal system usually pretty quickly.

So far, nothing.

As we both understand it, the hospital doesn't publish a report if it has significantly negative findings. It goes to your doctors and they arrange to tell you in person. So, not seeing a report in the portal after this much time is highly concerning to both of us.

And I'm kind of scared now, when before I was mostly just in the "concerned" range.

I've been this kind of scared far too many times. It's exhausting.

I guess all we can do now is wait.

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DunningKruger · 61-69, M

So, here's what happened.

We finally got the report from the MRI, and the results were... nothing.

As in on the MRI, they couldn't even see whatever it was that made it look suspicious on the CT scan.

You'd think that would make someone happy, wouldn't you? But as much as she said she was happy about it, the wife's face told me how deeply disappointed she was. She really, really wanted to have cancer again, because she's never so happy as when her hypochondria is justified.

She is now telling herself that whatever was seen on the CT scan was really real, and that all the woo-woo stuff she's been doing made the cancer go away, because that makes more sense than considering that she might be, you know, wrong.

I mean, she snapped my head off when I dared to suggest that what was seen on the CT scan didn't actually exist at all, that it may well have just been an artifact of the scanning technology. And she followed it up with an evening of passive aggressiveness. Oh, she had to wait to take a bath in her bathroom while I took a shower in mine because I happened to mention months and months ago that she could use up all the hot water in the bath when she stayed in it for hours and ran all the hot water into it (this was before we got the point-of-use water heater for the tub). Which meant that I had to wait on her to come to bed so we could do our regular reading, which means I was about falling down sleepy by the time she was ready to go to bed, which meant that we had to get up and have a snack and play a game.

Ah, well. At least she isn't sick again. I'm happy about that.

Eddiesolds · 61-69, M

@DunningKruger I feel for you both alot..It makes me sad because shes angry about it , then at the same time , im so happy that it didnt come back as positive that she did. Im still praying for you two. I hope she has a better day today.im hugging you both.