PET scan

Had the PET scan today and some lab work in preparation for the day surgery Monday when they'll put a port in my chest for the chemo treatments.

The purpose of the PET scan is to see if there is any cancer cells in body organs. For the PET scan they give you radioactive sugar. It goes to your organs targeting cancer cells and areas of activity. So after they give you the contrast they want you to lay around for an hour and a half and not read or think too much because they don't want you to have a lot of brain activity. That can cause the contrast to go to your brain and not to cancer cells and then they could miss something. Do you know how hard it is to sit quietly for an hour and a half and not read, or plan out the plot of my work in progress or at least recite poetry memorized in junior high school just to avoid going crazy of bordom?

I lived through it somehow and she managed to do the scan so I guess I was sufficiently empty headed.