{"id":969,"date":"2023-10-02T13:22:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T17:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rickollie.com\/?p=969"},"modified":"2025-05-15T19:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T23:59:16","slug":"cancer-chronicles-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rickollie.com\/es\/2023\/10\/02\/cancer-chronicles-7\/","title":{"rendered":"My PET Scan Experience: Insights and Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"

 Positron Emission Tomography or PET scan<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

October 2, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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   Test:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Nearly four months after being diagnosed with prostate cancer, I hoped to have had the last of the pre-treatment tests involved, as today I went in for yet another scan. This time it was a Positron Emission Tomography<\/strong> or PET<\/strong> scan. In layman’s terms another fancy imagining scan. Much like the MRI and CT scan just lay on your back and let the thing do its job of taking photographs of your inside.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

     But before that happened, I waited approximately an hour or some to let the dose of radioactive dye<\/strong> flow through my system, after being injected, as it has tracers the scan detects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Godzilla vs Kong<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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     While the dye was flowing through me, I thought of the 2021 movie, ‘Godzilla vs Kong.’ <\/strong>Believe what you want, Godzilla beat that giant monkey in my book. Much the same way Tommy Hearns<\/strong> beat Ray Leonard<\/strong> in their second fight. That was no draw, and neither was Godzilla’s! Both clear cut winners. Besides how you going to beat a dinosaur all radioactive’d up?  Just can’t happen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Test Continued:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

     <\/strong>You know me and my overthinking mind, I did my research on the PET Scan. But I did wait until yesterday, as I had just found out about its insurance approval late last week,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Although it’s from the UK, video below, the procedure is pretty much the same. Except my arms were lying on my side, no sugar levels were drawn from my blood, and I went in the waiting room and watched TV for the hour or so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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