Well tomorrow is the big day. Initially I thought today was when I would be getting the whole body scan, but my protocol is a little different than I thought. Wednesday I got a 5mCi dose of I-131 and today I got a 2mCi dose of I-123. The I-131 came in a little test tube with a straw and the I-123 was a pill.

I have to admit I am a *huge* worrier so I’m a little freaked out right now because when they did the uptake studies today the tech commented that I had a “large” amount of uptake. What does that mean?!?!?! I expect to have some, because no surgeon can perfectly remove the entire thyroid remnant but does that mean I am shot full of cancer in all my lymph nodes? I sure hope not.

I was looking at my path report again after the thyroidectomy and I keep coming back to how large the tumor was…3.5cm. Anything over 1cm is considered “large” and it seems like 4cm is associated with a much poorer outcome. Blah. At this point I’m just counting on my extremely tough Potter family genes to get my through to a good outcome even if I have a poor prognosis.

Luckily even with incurable thyroid cancer you can live a really long time and be relatively symptom free. That’s what gives me hope.