6 Months Cancer-Free!
The PET scan I got this morning was my 6 month check-up since I finished chemo last August. The PET scan is the one where I go to Nuclear Medicine and they inject me with radioactive glucose and where they look for increased metabolism throughout my entire body because cancer cells metabolize a lot. I already got my results because I have good friends.
They found no increased metabolism and therefore no cancer. I like not having cancer.
The next PET scan will be in 6 more months, my one-year no-cancer anniversary. That will be in August. After that is typically a yearly check until 5 years and then I am called "cured."
posted by Jason Trip at 12:20 AM
7 Comments:
This is fabulous news! Congratulations!!!
10:26 AM
haha happy petskin jason!!!Congrats!
4:54 PM
yay!!! i knew it. this reminds me of the rocky poster...your arms should now be raised in triumph. by the way, i hope you've actually put that up by now, lazy. congratulations and i'm glad you adopted calling it your 'anniversary.' see you later!
4:57 PM
This is great news!
I am starting to know what you mean when you say you felt like a lab rat. I was hospitalized last week and the gave me a CT, ultrsound, and PET scan trying to figure out what I have. But that PET scan... man, I had a hard time staying still for 45 minutes with my arms over my head. Today, I had a biopsy and get my results next week.
Hopefully, I won't have to start one of these blogs but I am glad you still write here.
11:54 PM
YAY!!! Happy 6 months of cancer-freeness!!
9:24 PM
awesome.
Terbo & Mish Mash
7:27 PM
Wow dude, cant believe it's been 6 months! Got to have a ragin party on the one year no-cancer date!
10:56 AM
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