Last Tuesday Matthew went up to M. D. Anderson for a pre-surgery PET scan. That was fairly routine
but we really won't know any of the results until the next time we can talk to his doctors, which probably
won't be until after his surgery on the 20th.
On Wednesday Matthew took a load of scrap metal that he had been accumulating beside the garage
over to the recycling center, something he has done several times over the last three months. But
this time they flagged him over - their sensors reported he was carrying contraband radioactive material!
This was a surprise to Matthew. He knows that some small items like smoke detectors could cause this
but to the best of his knowledge he just had the same routine stuff as before. The recycling center
employees pulled out a Geiger counter and spent 15 minutes combing through his stuff looking for
the radioactive source. They finally located it - it was Matthew! Turned out to be residual radiation from
the small amount of radioactive tracer he had taken for the PET scan.
And, no, he doesn't glow in the dark.
and here is Emily's contribution.....
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