CT/PET scan

Out of all the tests and procedures thus far, this one scared me the most.  The main point of the scan was to rule out cancer spread, beyond the lymph nodes.  It is too easy to let yourself go to a dark place and picture tumors everywhere in your body.  

The actual scan was easy.  I had to fast until after my 10 am appointment (the hardest part).  Once I got checked in, they checked my blood sugar and injected me with a radioactive sugar.  Then came the best part- I got to relax in a recliner (with a heated blanket!) for 30 minutes while the radioactive sugar did it's thing. After this, the tech had me lay down in the scan machine.  It was a slow scan- took 24 minutes but I just laid there the whole time.  Pretty relaxing, really.

I had an appointment with the oncologist the following afternoon so we asked for a "quick read" on the scan results.

Afterwards we went to grab a burger because I was starving! #eatbeef