Tuesday, 9/28 - What's next, a DOG Scan?

Yesterday I had my CT Scan and bone scan.

For the CT Scan (or Cat Scan), I had to drink a bottle of barium dye. Half a bottle the night before and the other half in the morning. It looks like a combination of Elmer's glue and a McDonald's milkshake, and it takes like Tang.

But wait, there's more.

They also inject me with a contrast agent during the scan to make things stand out more. The side effect of this is a warm feeling around your neck and groin. They tell you that you'll feel as though you've just wet your pants, but don't worry, it's just a sensation.

Thank you, may I have another?

The bone scan isn't much different. They inject you with a radioactive dye which takes two hours for your body to distribute. After two hours you come back and they do a very slow and quiet full body scan. Pretty painless. However, I do mind being injected with dyes and radioactive substances. It's a pet peeve of mine.

Today we go for more blood work and an injection. Lyn doesn't get an injection, just me.

Tomorrow is the PET Scan. More radioactive injections, more two hour waits and more laying around in a tube.

We won't get any results until Friday. That's when all the results have come in and the doctor will have had a chance to review everything. As I've said in previous blog postings, I want to know and I don't want to know.

I'll be stressing more about this in blog entries in the next few days.

My left thumb has been twitching since last night. Naturally, I have thumb cancer.

In other news, Lyn made a delicious stew yesterday that included a rutabaga in the ingredients. Neither of us ever knowingly ate one before. The stew was wonderful, but the jury is still out on the rutabaga.