I've gone Nuclear

September 18th, 2007

I went in to my Nuclear Medicine Doctor today to have another Nuclear Imaging body scan. I had one right after I did the radio active iodine treatment in Aug. He finally told me when I got in the room today as to why I had to have a second scan. He saw cancer in my right lymphoid but assured me the cancer cells are PROBABLY all dead. I hate when a Dr can't tell you yes or no, geezzz. I know they have to cover their asses. So we looked at my pictures he took today and you can still see a faint glow but the iodine is almost all out of my system.

Thursday I see my Thyroid Specialist and she will tell me what course of action she will want me to take. I might have to be given a small dose of the iodine again and be scanned again so they can see if that area is still holding cancer cells. If they believe there are some still active and heaven forbid they are not all dead right now. I will have to have another big radio active iodine dose again. *sigh*

I hope and think for now they will just monitor my blood work and if my numbers stay good then that would mean the cancer is gone. The Dr said He may have to scan me a year from now too. So this may be something I will be going through a lot longer then I had hoped.


I hope this made some sense.