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Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 138 | Be prepared to just sit still for an hour after they put the radioactive glucose in. They wouldn't even let me read a book. That was my only surprise when I went. Then I have also heard you shouldn't hug your pet that day as you have radiation in you. I don't know how critical that is. I have another PET coming up next week.
BOT-SCC Partial glossectomy 7/16/09.
Stage IV, Rt ND 10/2/09.
Teeth out 11/5/09.
Port/peg in, 11/20/09.
7 wks rad & chemo, end 1/22/10
lung, colon biopsies 1/9/11 - both cancer
colon resect surg 1/10/11
Folfox + Avastin - discontinued 6/11
lung surgery 3/13/12, 5/1/12
mets to liver and bones
passed away 9/4/13
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