A date for the scan
I now have a date for my PET scan!! It is next Wednesday 10th June at 1.45pm. I then have a clinic appointment to get the results on the 18th June at 8.30am (thought it was better to have an early appointment and get it over with).
The information has come through from the hospital today, and it says that I am not allowed to eat for 6 hours before the scan, which will be done at the imaging department at Sussex University, and they will inject me with a radioative sugar. Then I have to lie down for an hour to let the sugar substance work its way through my body. Then I lie in the scanner for an hour while it does what it has to do. Then I can go home.
The results will then be discussed at a meeting in Brighton by my consultants and the haematology team at Brighton hospital and then I will get the results at my clinic appointment. I am already so nervous.
I am getting the results sooner than I thought I would, I did have a clinic appointment in July but I have been able to move this forward. I have been doing quite well, am very busy at the moment at work and at home and I think I may have been overdoing it a bit, so am taking a couple of “rest” days at the moment. I have had a horrible mouth problem where I had sore bits, cuts and ulcers in my mouth as a result of the chemo, so I had to go to the GP and get some hydrocortisone tablets and anti viral tablets. They seem to have done the trick though.
Sounds to me Anne a bit like looking for a blockage in your plumbing system. Mr Muscle is quite good !