Phil's Philosophical Phenomena

Sherry had blood tests and a "core drill" into the back of her pelvis today. The procedure was required to extract a sample of her bone marrow for testing. We want that test to come out negative, which means no evidence of cancer is present. We don't know why they wanted a sample of the bone, but they got it. She was a little surprised (and relieved) that they only did one side, not both like they did last time.
Next will be an MRI-- really two MRIs; one with "contrast" and one without. The contrast material is injected intravenously.
After that, we should get the results from her hematologist on Monday.
In the meantime, her backside hurts. I'm going now to fix her some soup and get a pain pill.