Well, today I got to go all the way out to Surrey Hospital to drink radioactive material. I’m getting a radioactive imaging done of my thyroid because of the nodes in it. I tell you, it may be painless to drink that stuff, but it’s spooky. They serve it to you in this little bottle that is encased in a heavy metal canister, very heavy, I’m assuming largely lead, with the lovely radioactive warning sign on it. They stick an ordinary plastic bendy drinking straw in there, since you can’t drink directly from the container, in the lead container. Plastic bendy straws always remind me of fancy drinks or being a kid having a sweet drink, it’s a weird combination with the lead canister. The technician handles the container and straw with gloves on.  Drinking something out of a lead container that has a radioactive warning sign on it… with a bendy straw… is a surreal experience.  Between now and tomorrow it will infuse my thyroid tissues, it’s radioactive material that ‘likes’ thyroid tissue. So if it’s made of thyroid, it will light up with the stuff. If my nodules aren’t made of dense thyroid, they won’t absorb it.  It’s not a test that will tell me if they are malignant or benign if it isn’t thyroid tissue, but if it is thyroid tissue, then it’s not cancer. If it isn’t thyroid tissue, then it will be biopsy time to figure it out. Here’s to hoping it’s thyroid tissue.

Well, I’m pretty sure I’m not going to mutate, but I am enjoying the idea that I am radioactive material infused. I have just had a radioactive pee… too funny.

As for all my other health crap, I’m still waiting to for an appointment with the internist for the next step. So far today has been not bad for pain.  It’s always nice to have some respite from the worst of it. However, I am starting to feel the typing, so that’s enough out of me.