The PET Scan

For those of you that have never had a PET scan, a little bit of information. With a PET Scan you are given an injection of radio active glucose and then wait for about 45 minutes while it circulates throughout your body. I was told that Cancer cells uptake the glucose 10 times faster than normal cells and so that increased metabolism of sugar by cancer cells will show up on the film. Technology is fascinating and I am so glad to live in a time where we are advanced enough so it no longer requires exploratory surgery to determine what is going on inside of us ! I was sent into a small donut -like tube and had over 2,000 pictures taken from my knees to my eyebrow level. It wasn't long and the test was done. Now all I had to do was to wait and see what the Radiologist would say. More sleep, more rest, less pain, but no energy to do anything. I was completely drained!