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."

Rehab Doctor Visit

I saw Dr. King the Sports Medicine doctor today to follow up from my Dr. Mohler visit. The point of the visit was to review my post-treatment x-rays so that he can give me an idea of how to rehab my hip. He told me that he does agree with Mohler that I have an increased chance of needing a new hip in 30-50 years, but he said it is not a sure thing. He also said that I am sure to have some arthritis, but I realized today that "arth" just means "joints", and I already knew "itis" was irritation, so arthritis is just irritation of the joints. Basically, it just means my hip hurts, and I already knew that.

The biggest bummer of what he said is that I shouldn't try jumping for something like 6 months. The rehab plan is simply to slowly strengthen the hip. He said that the more pain-free movement of the joint, the better, but it is bad to jar it.

Big day tomorrow, the 6 month PET scan to make sure I remain cancer-free.