Scan Day

The PET scan was scheduled to begin at 7:30 am, after waiting to be called and prep work, they inject him with Fluorine-18 / glucose mixture [F-18 fluoro-2-deoxyglucose (F-18 FDG)], which apparently makes him so radioactive that I am not allowed to stay in the room with him. After 1.5 hrs of isolation, the scan begins which takes another 1 hour. So finally at close to 11:00 he finishes up. The MRI was scheduled for 7:30 pm, but we were hoping to sneak in earlier if they had any cancellations and avoid a long day at the hospital. (Kev did not feel up to travelling back home to only round-trip again later in the afternoon). We had a leisurely lunch, relaxed in the Sundial area which has a nice view of Holcomb Ave and various large construction cranes. (Kevin and Nick share a love for construction equipment - amongst other things. I think Nick could say “excavator” before he could say “momma”). They finally let us check-in for the MRI around 5:00 on a “stand-by” basis and gave a beeper so we weren’t confined to the small waiting room. Unfortunately, there were no cancellations and Kev finally went in for the MRI at 9:00 – after1 ½ hrs for the procedure, we should be home by midnight….Results on Friday.