I had my PET scan tonight, everything went well. They flew up the radioactive isotopes from Seattle during the day, and it showed up about 2pm, so Providence Imaging called and had me come in early at 3:15. I went into the ‘isolation’ room and had to drink two glasses of barium. After 10 minutes, she came back and then put the radioactive isotopes in my IV. At this point I was radioactive, so they shut the door, shut off the lights, and I had to lay back and relax for an hour. Since the PET looks for cell activity I had to stay still so that my muscles would not ‘soak’ up too much of the radiation, since we were not trying to look at my muscles. If my lymph nodes have any cancer, they would ‘soak’ up the radiation, and show any possible spread. They are not expecting anything, but wanted to take a look.
After the hour of relaxing I went into the PET machine and they gave me a CAT scan, and then the PET scan. I had to lie perfectly still for half an hour while it made its scan.
After the scan it was suggested that I avoid people, at least close contact for 6 to 8 hours. So I went out on Turnagain arm and went for a nice little hike, and found a good place to lie down in the sun. Then I went home, worked on my 4Runner for an hour, by this time I was ‘Safe’. I did not want to go home right away since my cats think the best place to hang out is on my lap and snuggle next to me.
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