Hope everyone had a fun 4th of July this year. Scott had said that he wasn't going to get any fireworks this year, however when we got our paychecks on Friday, June 29 that changed! I'm not sure how much he spent this year, however I do know that one of the aerial displays was over $50.00 and worth every penny of it. Scott started with bottle rockets fairly early in the day. Because the 4th was on a Wednesday this year and most of our neighbors had the work the next day, Scott thought it would be better to start setting our display off while it was still dusk. He had a variety of larger multi-shot aerial displays. At some point Scott glanced across the yard and started grinning from ear to ear as he noticed that the neighbors across the street had set up lawn chairs in their garage situated so they could see our display as well as those to both the east and west of us. Come to think of it they probably had the best seats in the neighborhood! Anyway, around 9:30 Scott set off his showstopper and WOW ... like I said, it was worth every penny! About 5 seconds after that display ended we heard applause from a small group of people who were lighting firecrackers a little over a block away (they had an unobstructed view of our entire display). It was fun! Scott and I just got back from my doctor appointment. Guess the tumor marker is back up at 6.3, which is obviously not under 2 as I had hoped it would be. Dr. Oppenheimer doesn't see think it's a good idea to go another round of RAI because it doesn't seem to be having an affect and he's against useless treatments (score one for Dr. O in my husband's eyes). Dr. O has scheduled a PET/CT scan for me on Wednesday, July 11 @ 12:30. Nothing but plain water for 4 hours prior to the scan (so Mindy, that means you can't ingest anything but water after 8:30 that morning). From the looks of it, the PET scan machine is less coffin-like than the Gamma scan machine is, so hopefully I won't freak-out like I did during my first gamma scan! From what I've read about it, but PET/CT scan is highly useful in identifying a variety of cancers in a variety of locations. I'll be given a small does of a radioactive sugar mixture before the scan, but the dose is very low and will leave my system quickly, so I won't have to be isolated. I will have to set up another appointment with Dr. Oppenheimer to get the results of this new scan. Basically, his thought is that we'll just have to wait and see what it shows and tackle it as it comes up.
Love & hugs y'all,
