Looking Good

As far as we know, we're through now. The last full body scan on Friday didn't seem to show anything I didn't expect to see, based on what I had been told.

Now, I'm no nuclear medicine specialist. But I think what we were looking for was a bright spot around the thyroid area, and darkness elsewhere, which is just what I saw. This because the thyroid tissue takes up the radioactive iodine, and if it's just in that one area, it has not spread. Plus, if it's bright, it means the medicine was taken up well by the remaining thyroid tissue.

Because I-131 has a half-life of 8 days, it was 50% gone on Friday. According to the rad specialist, they expect 97% of the dose to be flushed from the system in those first few days of seclusion. So, 3% was taken up by the thyroid, of which now 1.5% remains to light up last Friday's scan. And in a couple of days, we'll be at half of that - 0.75% by my calculations. IE, not very much.

Darcy's rebounding very well. Less tired each day. She watched the kids today for the first time since this all began, and she seems just fine, a bit tired, but not bad.

Over the last few weeks, first my mom, Ann, and then my buddy Doug both came out to help, and man were they appreciated. They worked hard to help, and I'm so personally grateful. Here are a couple of pictures from that time, with their little charges in tow.

Thank you for all you've done, I can't even say how grateful I am, cause it's too big for words.