Going for another PET scan today.
Not looking forward to it, especially as I can’t have any coffee or brekky before I go. The good news is that the appointment is at 8.15 in the morning so there shouldn’t be much of a wait, but it also means I have to miss my yoga class today. And I’m told they can’t use my port to inject the radioactive FDG isotope, so I have to get it in the hand!!! Hopefully “one-poke” Manolo will be there – that guy is amazing.
Well, it’s going to be a full morning at the hospital. Catch you all later…
casa azahar 
May the Force be with you!
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Thanks. Will need something since, of course, I have been wide awake since 4am and now feel like I could fall asleep standing up. And I can’t even have coffee!
Ah well, hopefully the first stage of the scan will be over by 10.00 and then Nog & I can go have some coffee & toast while we wait for stage two (they almost always do the scan twice).
Check out those pics. The combined CT-PET scan looks rather cool, but apparently you are in the machine for about an hour and a half (!!!) so I’m happy just getting the normal PET, which lasts about half an hour. The prep is about an hour though. I will be injected and given a serious tranq and then have to sit in a comfy chair for about 45 minutes while radioactive crap spreads through my body.
Well, gotta leave in half an hour so I’d better get into the shower. Later alligators …
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Hope it all turns out well.
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Virtual cosmopolitan? Catch you later x
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Part one is over and I’m having some much needed coffee. On the way out I noticed two rather burly cops standing outside the comfy chair room. Nog told me later that the patient was brought in wearing cuffs. I wonder if they’ll use the comfy pillow and warm blanky on him!
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good luck
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Finally home again after FIVE HOURS at the hospital, and have had my second shower of the day (washing the hospital off me).
At first glance, Pilar says the scan looks good. She said there’s still a lot of inflammation in the original colon resection area but that the liver looks clean (yay!). I’ll have to wait until next week to get the official report but it sounds like it will be good news. Fingers crossed!
Meanwhile, Nog lost his mobile phone somewhere between the hospital and home. I’m betting it fell out of his pocket in the taxi. Oh well. Have just cancelled the number and will get it reissued using his old phone tomorrow.
And now … lunch and a nap, I think.
Thanks for all the good wishes. 🙂
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See it this way – if you get glowing enough, you will save on the electricity bills, being your own lamp…
(Another bad joke courtesy of the HooToo Goddess of Bad Jokes, Cloned Cats, Talking Cows and Golden Dragons)
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Yeah, I shouldn’t need a night-light tonight.
Talking cows?
One-poke Manolo quite unnecessarily reminded me this morning that I should avoid being around small children after the scan … 😉
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Yes, at time time of being appointed Goddess, there was a guy calling himself Super-Moo around. He had a pal – EvilClaw, a “catmanthing”…
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Oh, I think you should irradiate as many small children as you can!!!
You’ve reminded me of the time a client of mine had to take her husband in for a minor emergency in the middle of the night and found the ER situation complicated by a patient who had to remain handcuffed to the cop… even while he took a pee. The air was ringing with loud profane complaints.
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Of course the man would complain, he probably chose poorly and used his free hand to unzip and the handcuffed hand to shake!
Az, go to Google Earth and see if Sevilla is a little brighter tonight. 😉
Sounds like good news, all the best. 🙂
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Good luck, Honey Bunch!
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A long morning, but worth every minute if the results are good.
Now take the rest of the summer to get well.
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