Andrew was suppose to get a PET scan this week, but we found two lumps behind his left ear. The doctor thinks Andrew has an infection and that they are possibly swollen lymph nodes. He put Andrew on anti-biotics for a week and postponed the PET scan, rescheduling it for next Tuesday. They needed to put it off if there is a suspected infection because in the scan an infection and tumor would both look the same. The PET scan measures the rate of (radioactive) metabolizing sugar. Both tumors and infections consume a lot of calories, so they "look the same" on a scan.
Today our family is fasting that if Andrew has anymore tumors that we will be able to find them and "get them taken care of", however we'd prefer that he not have any more tumors.
Got to run!
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