Today some good news. After lunch I got a page from the Nurse Practitioner that said "Hi Sara, Call me I have some good news". I think she was excited to not be calling me with bad news, yet again. Ok everybody ready....the left side mass that was so interestingly extracted yesterday is...wait for it...
BENIGN!!! No cancer in the left breast! Yay!
Ok, but learning from last week I know I'm not out of the woods yet. Tomorrow is still the PET scan. Which means tonight for dinner I had baked chicken breast (larger than a deck of cards) and some steamed spinach. And lots and lots of water. The reason you cannot have carbohydrates before the test is that they use radioactive glucose (well fludeoxyglucose) for the test. Malignant cells are metabolically more active than normal cells and they take up more glucose. Therefore during the Positron Emission Test (PET scan) depending on the amount of fluoride taken up by cells depends on what color they appear [the following synopsis was brought to you by UptoDate a fine program we have at work]. The goal for tomorrow is no colors (except for the 2.1 cm mass already none in the right boob) that is why there is no exercise or carbohydrate for me. Hopefully the results will be in before the loooong weekend.
Hooray!!! Nice try left breast. Get outta here. GOOD LUCK tomorrow. Will be thinking about you, praying, crossing fingers and all that good stuff. Love you lots!
ReplyDeleteI need come up with a boob-dance. I suspect it might end up closely resembling the chicken dance. Anyway, fingers crossed for no christmas lights!!! Always in my thoughts, SS.
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