Yeeeah. Wow. One of those fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants sort of days.

A little update, my radiation treatment got pushed back a week. Because of my prior lymph node involvement, the Nuclear Radiologist wanted to get more information, so we pushed back everything. So today, I head into the hospital for my marathon day. YEAH! Come on!! First stop? Bathroom, for a pregnancy test. Mind you, I had one with my bloodwork last week. But they will not proceed if the test is over 48 hours old. Which... would have been nice to know. I went before leaving the house, and gee, I was on no water/no food since midnight. Yeeeeeeah. "Only need three drops!" took well over half an hour. And gee, big surprise, not pregnant! (Which is good, because I'd need someone to SERIOUSLY explain that one)

Yes, kids, it's radioactive! Not much, but enough to warrant an all-lead
container. That's a soda-can of solid lead. Around a pill. ONE little pill.
And that's just the diagnostic dose, not even the badass ablation dose.
Down it goes. Go and sit in the lobby for two hours. Head back to Nuclear Medicine and... I sit on a stool. In a corner. Facing what looks like a coffee can pointed at me. Tech hits a button and leaves. I have to sit still for ten minutes. No blinking lights, no buzzing, nothing. Just... sitting. Ten minutes later, she returns, I turn around and the coffee can is pointed at my back. Ten more minutes... like the world's slowest rotisserie. And done.
Two more hours sitting in the lobby.
Head back to Nuclear medicine and guess what? Back in the corner! On the stool! Staring down the Coffee Can of Doom!!! And ten minutes after that... I feel that Chock Full o' Nuts staring at my shoulder blades for ten more minutes.
"See you tomorrow!!" Yep. Eleven o'clock tomorrow, I get the same deal. Just once though, not twice. All to see how fast I clear it out of my system to help them zero in on the ablation dose and how long I'll have to be isolated. Wednesday, I get a chest image done (something different!!) Thursday, a Whole Body Scan to see what all lights up (this actually sounds pretty cool).
Oh yeah, radiation is just... exciting. I think my brain is leaking out my ears from today.
