Today was Mom�s PET scan. Before we got into the medical center, we saw Mom�s Oncologist in the parking lot. Mom stopped to talk to him, and he told her she looked a lot better than the first time he saw her. He was on his cell phone, so it was a short conversation with him.
When we got there, Mom had to be injected with glucose filled with some sort of chemical. The glucose carries the chemical to the cancer cells and shows up real bright on a PET scan. She did well; they gave her an injection of the glucose with radioactive tracers in it. The sugar takes the radioactive tracers to the cancer cells. Well, after they injected her with it, she had to lay still and not talk for an hour, then after that they did the scan, which lasted for 30 minutes. She took anti anxiety meds to calm herself down.
They wouldn�t' tell us what was on the scan and wouldn't show it to us either. Her oncologist told her to call Monday, and he would discuss the results with her over the phone.