Tee shirt, I am secretly HOPING RADIATION gives me SUPER POWERS! Invisibility, Ha ha-
Somehow I knew in my 40’s that I would get cancer. I was a heavy smoker, a bit overweight and a junk food junkie. I was raised in the smoking capital of the US at the time - Las Vegas, Nv. Influenced by the 70’s lifestyle and the fact that almost EVERYONE smoked, it felt like the world's largest ashtray. In high school we even had our own smoking section for the students on break. Somehow my brother and sisters skipped this family addiction, but not me. I did have an addictive personality and still do today. I volunteered for the US Navy with a dream job as a photographer. Of course in my opinion - the Navy was the 2nd largest floating ashtray - an aircraft carrier the USS Coral Sea.
I didn’t really try to stop smoking until my mid 30’s. My new wife smoked lightly and seemed to be able to quit overnight… for me it took about 7 years to learn how to control nicotine addiction.
If you the reader is struggling with an addiction, what worked for me was “not to quit” but delay. Try this… next time you want a cigarette - give yourself permission to smoke, but count to 5 seconds before you light up. This technique has worked for me… After a week or so - move the 5 second permission mark to 10 or 20 seconds… build up your own personal tolerance… This took almost 7 years of adding seconds, minutes, hours, days etc…
and I stopped beating myself up as a personal failure.
Awaiting pet scan
About 1 hour before my PET scan, I need to relax and let the "radioactive" glucose injection kick in. Then a wheelchair trip to the machine (to keep my glucose down, I could have walked but was told that would raise my blood sugar. 1 hour to relax, then maybe 20 to 45 minutes in the PET scanner and done - on with the day.
PET Scan at the Temple Tx VA