Well, in my case my last radiation treatment was on the day before my official birthday, so they are pretty much one and the same.

I celebrated by having my first PET/CT scan, taking the disk home, putting it in the laptop and scaring myself half to death by looking at the lit-up spots all over my body!! Holy Hotspots, Batman!

Especially the one that I thought was my prostate, glowing like Chernobyl on a moonless night! (Immediate thoughts of heading on down to the Radiation Center for a series prostate burns started running through my head, so I started counting my blessings, like not getting lost on the way, not needing introductions to the staff, not needing that dang mask, etc.).

A quick consult with an anatomy chart in a book revealed Chernobyl to be my bladder, where the radioactive stuf was deposited after normal processing; further consult with the book and laptop convinced me that at least it wasn't likely that I have a prostate cancer problem because there were no glowing zones on that organ, unlike my brain and other parts.

I must say that it was a worrisome wait for the results of the radiologist's reading of the scans to reveal that all was well!

I think I will endeavor to do something less stressful on Anniversary #2...