I am Radioactive Man!

I haven't checked if I glow in the dark yet, and so far I show no spidey powers, of course to be fair I didn't get bit by a radioactive spider but by a radioactive needle ;)

Okay lets take a step back a week... Last week I was feeling pretty crappy trudging through the week with a cold. I just so happen to work with a number of sections who specialize in research. While visiting one of these sections, they noticed I was sick. Before I knew what hit me, I found myself swept up by researchers mumbling things like "ohh he is sick this is perfect... you will like this study, we pay you know..."

Well money definitely perked up my senses and of course I still had enough left to make sure it wasn't anything with experimental drugs. In fact the study has no drugs just a lot of breathing tests and some imaging scans. Specificely they are looking to see what effect a cold has on someone with asthma or allergies, and being someone without either asthma or allergies I work great as a control. So before I knew it I found myself as part of this "VIAX Study".

Now skip back forward to present day, part of this study involved imaging. What imagining you ask... well there are three a CT scan (cat scan), MRI, and a PET scan. The mri was down for upgrade however I was still able to get in for the cat scan and PET scan. I finished my cat scan last week and did the PET scan today.

So where did Radioactive man come from, well part of the PET scan involves injecting a radioactive isotope into your blood and then following its inteaction with your cells. Kind of scary thought isn't it. Really no pain or anything involved here, though I may glow a bit tonight :)

The best part is when you can sweet talk them into sharing the scan with you. Check it out that's my insides ;) Well it's a shot of my chest area, kind of hard to tell what you are looking at. No worries Dan nothing gross here kind of like an animated xray.