PET Scan Results

So, as many of you know, Scott had his PET Scan this morning.  I had to work.  :P
The scan was at 7:30am and we had the results by 10:14am.
Good news:  The radiologists were baffled.  Everyone is baffled.  They pulled up the scans and the lymph node that was big and abnormal looking last month is now completely normal.  It's uptake time of the radioactive dye was within normal limits (the cancer cells uptake the dye quickly because they think it's delicious, so that's how you can see the abnormal cells on the scan.), and nothing around it looked suspicious either!  They looked through the rest of the scan of his body and could find NOTHING - meaning that Scott doesn't have to have surgery for now!   I wanted to jump up and down the hall at work when I heard the news and scream it in everyone's faces!  We are so happy and thankful that our prayers were answered beyond what we even dreamed we could have hoped for!
We still don't know why Scott's calcitonin levels jumped so quickly and we will have to continue to monitor that closely.  He will probably have another one drawn soon.  The PET Scan can't really detect anything smaller than 1cm, so we will have to repeat it in a few months to make sure nothing is growing. In the meantime, a copy of today's scan has been mailed off to Dr. Moley, our specialist at Washington University, to review.
We feel like we live in a world of emotional extremes right now.  We've spent the last few weeks completely accepting this surgery and diagnosis, only to have it wiped away.  I'm thrilled - completely thrilled - but still can barely believe it and don't really know what to do with myself.  It's a total shift of thinking again.

SO, thank you all for all of your prayers and encouragement!  We know that God had His almighty hand in this and are grateful most of all to Him.  We'll keep you updated as we follow this over the next weeks and months.