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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Why My Sister is a nurse...

Hey Ab! Read the blog, and thought it is great. Just wanted to correct you on a couple of terms ;). The spot in her lung is a mass (not mast). It is putting pressure on her pulmonary artery, not the ventricles. The pulmonary artery carries blood from the heart to the lungs. It is also putting pressure on her airway, which narrows it causing shortness of breath and increased risk for infection like pneumonia. The full body scan that she is having on Mon is a PET scan. They inject a kind of radioactive sugar into your blood stream and cancer cells metabolize sugar faster than healthy cells. So when they do the scan, all of the cancer cells in her body will glow on the scan. So then they will know exactly where all the cancer is. Thanks for doing the blog. I Love You! Shannon


I was serriously laughing OUT LOUD when I read this... it's so me to screw something like this up... see... told you I'd miss some things, this is why i'm counting on others to keep me on track... so I'll correct my other post... but for now just read this... :) Thank you Sis I love you.

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