Shows you how ignorant I am — I did not know a PET scan would show cancer.
Good to know that.
The oncology center that I go to has a PET scan unit and a CT scan area too. I wondered why when I went in there for my first appointment with the oncologist.
Now I know.
Little by little, I’m learning lots of new stuff.
I went back and re-read my pathology report from the breast tissue and learned that my Her2/neu is Negative,with a score of 1+. The negative range is 0 - 1+ according to the Hercep Test.
Just an aside, when prayers were lifted up in church a couple of weeks ago, my cancer was specificied as “breast cancer.”
I harken back to the days of good old Queen Victoria who was the person responsible for changing the description of chicken breasts to “white meat” and thighs to “dark meat.” She didn’t want “breasts” and “thighs” — and probably other chicken body parts mentioned at her oh so proper dinner table.
She would probably have a stroke to hear breast cancer and testicular cancer mentioned by name in prayer requests!
Jane:
Queen Victoria would have had a fit if she knew that more than a century after her reign the words “breast” and leg” would be considered mild compared to the kinds of words we now hear on TV shows, movies, rap songs, you name it.
How strange the world is now.
Pet Scans aren’t nearly as scary to me as MRI’s. I had to have one for a rotator cuff tear recently and I thought they were pushing me into my own coffin. I guess I must be claustrophobic.
The tech said if I got scared to push the panic button but I almost lasted the whole time being OK. The tech first said just listen to this music on these earphones and you’ll be fine. So I did listen to the lovely music as I pushed the panic button and screamed in my head “let me OUT!”
As someone who is five months “clear” of cancer I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers for the months ahead for your health and recovery.
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