3PM First "Quick Scan" (phase 2)

Of course they were still behind when I came back but I got in by 4PM to get scanned.
They do a head to toe scan that takes about 30 mins.
Tomorrow they will do the same scan but it will last 2 hours minimum.
I know I will not be able to lie still that long. My stomach was killing me after 30 mins.
In the middle of the night I cant lie still for 2 hours, I wish I could.

Here is a link to the machine they use to do the scan. It is called the Hawkeye V3 ( made by General Eletric)
http://www.gehealthcare.com/usen/fun_img/nmedicine/hawkeye/index.html

Stay tuned for the recap on stage 3 scheduled for 8AM Wednesday morning.

8AM Octreotide Injection (phase 1)

OK, so you know you are in trouble when the nurse comes in wearing a biohazard suit like she was on the way to an Anthrax cleanup site.
Then they produce a thick lead pipe like the kind you would kill Professor Plum with, in the Billiard room, in the game Clue.
Inside this pipe is a blue translucent material that they intend to inject into your body. I guess grandkids are out of the question now.
After a painless injection you are on your way until the first scan happens later that day.
By the way, how do you get 1 hour and 45 mins behind schedule with an 8AM appointment?

Honest to God, there is a sign in the rest room in the Nuclear medicine department
“To control the spread of radioactive material please sit down to urinate and flush three times.” How is that to put your mind at ease. I will try to get a picture of this when I go back tomorrow for phase 3.

Holy Medicine Cabinet!

Thought you might get a chuckle out of my current cadre of medicines.
Of course when I need one at 3 am and it is pitch dark and I am trying to be silent as a mouse not to wake Cindy up... I end up picking up about 9 of these before finding the one I need.
By that time I have given up on the dark and had to turn the light on.
Given up on the silent and am cussing about where is the FREAKING bottle of WHATSIT?
And when I find it I normally forget why I was looking for it in the first place.