New Test Results

Enrique went in for a combination PET and CT scan today at Mission Bay. There is a good explanation of how these work here. The scan was scheduled months ago and is being done to determine what, if any, further treatment he'll require. It will determine how efffective the radiation treatment was in killing his remaining thyroid tissue; it will also turn up any other unknown cancer in his body -- if there is any.

His uncle and I went with him. He couldn't eat or drink beforehand. When we arrived he was injected with a (low-level) radioactive solution which the scan would track once it entered his body.

He had to wait about an hour for the solution to be absorbed. We were allowed to sit with him, but he couldn't move or speak. I kept teasing him by telling his uncle that Enrique really likes some ugly new building downtown or a particular republican presidential candidate. Meanwhile, he couldn't say anything in response.

We'll probably get the results of this set of scans sometime next week - although possibly as early as later today.