March 25, 2015.. Before I give a summary of today, I will post some photos of our apartment. I thought some photos might be a little more interesting than just text. I did not bring a camera with me so I made these with my phone. You can click each photo to make larger. 

As I have said before, our apartment is part of the Park Avenue complex where shops and apartments are located. Our apartment is in the second building in this photo. 

I was all dressed up yesterday getting ready to go to same day surgery for the bone marrow procurement.

Now for a summary for today.... I had my first appointment at 9am for the PET scan. The only thing you can have by mouth is water for 6 hours before the test.  Before they do the scan, they inject some radioactive glucose and then I had to wait for one hour before they could do the scan. I guess this is to allow the radioactive glucose to spread all over the body. After the one hour wait, they did the scan which took about 45 minutes to complete. After the scan, we hurried back to the apartment for lunch. I had another appointment at 1pm for a MRI scan. That scan also went with no problems and was completed in about 45 minutes.

I want to add a comment that I left out about the bone marrow biopsy procurement I had yesterday. They got enough sample to do a gene array. This will tell if I have high risk myeloma or low risk. On previous gene arrays I have had, it has shown that I have low risk but this can and does change sometimes.

Tomorrow, I will see the doctor and learn what the scans, biopsy, and lab tests showed and what the doctor thinks about how I am doing and hear what his plan for treatment will be. As anyone knows in situations like this, the whole trip is a tense time. While we are at home or on a fun trip, we can put myeloma out of mind much of the time but when we are here, it faces us directly. I look at each of the important items on my lab test results and hope that it did not go in the wrong direction. We are always very tense about hearing what the doctor has to say. Will it be good news or not so good news? We will not know until tomorrow.