Well I met the best blood drawer in all of San Diego! I have been stuck quite a bit and I didn't even feel it - and that with 2 vials taken ! Wow I am impressed! She is in the right profession! :-)
The other nurse at the Dr office is about 7 months pregnant thus the lack of brain right now and the flakey answers. So I called the radiology depaatment at Grossmont. They were very helpful and spent about 30 minutes on the telephone going over all my questions.
Background info - See I was in Dresden East Germany in 1986 when Chernobyl blew. That is the nuclear power plant in Russia that exploded. I remember vaguely how the men in yellow contamination suits had checked our bus with geiger counters but they let us go through. I thought it was strange at the time no one one board was checked but when you are in your 20's you think you will live forever anyway. So now fast forward 20+ years. (If you google all the incidents of thyroid cancer for those around or near Chernobyl 15+ years ago there are quite a few but I will get back to that.)
So I asked the nurse to find the Doc and ask him if the fact that I got a high dose of radioactive material in my 20's, would that have an effect or in any way lessen the success of my treatment. She said she would take all my questions and ask the Dr. I am still waiting for the call back.
So back to answers from Grossmont. I discovered there is a national shortage of isotopes so therefore a lack of appts for such treatment. If I am lucky I will get the one appt they have on Wed. I then will return on Friday for a body scan with the iodine. My friend Ray says it takes like 1 hour and I will then pee a funny color for a few days. I am hoping they will let me bring in a CD so I can relax.
If my blood turns out to be low enough in iodine tomorrow I will have a I131 - 100 milicules of radiaction iodine to kill the rest of the thyroid cells in my body on Wed. ..... to be continued
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