I had a meeting with Dr Bishton’s job-share, Nicholas, who
showed me the picture of the inside of my body and any areas we should be
looking at. He was pointing at a number of areas on the picture indicated by
lighter markings which showed where the radiation had accumulated. My focus,
however, was on my brain which was glowing bright white. He then explained that
as well as the cancer liking sugar, so do brains so this was quite normal also
that my bladder would expect to be holding some too. There were a number of
areas that weren’t supposed to have sugar which meant areas of lymphoma, heart,
kidney, one lung more that the other and my pancreas. Also present was my keyworker, Cath who
explained that this wasn’t as bad as it sounds, that because it is a blood
cancer (and so I’d be treated in the haematology department), it was expected
to be in a few places where blood goes (everywhere) and that it wasn’t a case
of one cancer (e.g. lung) ‘spreading’ to other areas (e.g. pancreas) so one
chemotherapy would get the lot of it. I was booked in for chemo.
