My Sweet PET

I had a PET/CT scan early Friday morning. They inject you with a radioactive tracer — and if you happen to be flying afterward, they give you a letter explaining that you’re not smuggling radioactive material like a Russian assassin. The substance is sugary, and since cancer cells are like kids in a candy store, they light up with high metabolic activity. I got the images on a USB, and the radiologist’s report will arrive in a few days.

For now, all I can say is that I look pretty colorful on the inside too!