MrbLOB9000

Good news first, I got a PET scan last week.  I think the PET scan was to check if the remaining few lumps I’ve got are cancerous, Dr. Dragon said that the lymph nodes may not go back to normal size because of scar tissue (but have gotten way smaller anyway), so even though I have a slight amount of bulkiness and a few lumps left they may not be cancerous.  We got the results back and it was negative.  So that’s great news.  Dr. Dragon also said that my progress was “exceptional” or was it “excellent”?  It was something that meant great and started with an ‘e’. 🙂  Either way I still have to finish out the rest of my chemo, but ya, it’s good to know it’s working.

Anyway, about the PET scan, it was a little weird.  They put you in a room and inject you with some radioative stuff.  It’s kinda weird when the stuff getting injected into you is in a lead pipe thing with lead endcaps, looks vaguely like the thing that held the mutagen ooze thing from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  The syringe was inside that leadpipe thing and she pushed it with a some long q-tip tihngs that were taped together.  Then I sat in a chair for 45 mins listening to music on my Zune.  Then she brought me to a room with the PET scan machine thing. The machine is very simliar to a CAT scan except the movable table thing they put you on is thinner and they strap your arms next to you with a big thick velcro strap.  She ask what music I liked and offered to play a few CDs and she put on some Tom Petty.  About twenty minutes later after the movable table I was strapped too moved me through the machine stopped and the thing scanned me, I was done.

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