Monday, October 16, 2017

Medical: view from my lead-lined holding room

For a $750 co-pay, I totally should have shoplifted those two rolls of the stretchy-sticky 3M wrap that you see on my left elbow table.  Yes my feet are nearly out the door.  The room serves to keep me from irradiating (much) while the radioactive Fludeoxyglucose FDG circulates inside me.
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