Harold goes in tomorrow
afternoon for a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan. The purpose of this scan is to see if cancer has
spread to any other part of his body. I’ve had this procedure before and it's
amazing. I felt like I was in a lab scene in some kind of science fiction movie. Harold will
receive an intravenous injection of a radioactive glucose. Following the
injection he will rest quietly for about an hour while the glucose travels through his body. After that he will lie on a table that will
slowly pass through a scanner. My doctor
explained that cancer cells are pigs. They just gobble up the glucose
tracer creating hot spots that show up on the scan.
I vote for a no
show, zero, none. But if not . . .
We expect to get
the results on Monday.
P.S. We walked
40 minutes today.
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