Hot Mama - Glowing 24 Hours Now

When I first got to the hospital there was some confusion.  Nuclear medicine knew I was here, and the nurses, but aparently the physicians did not.  I got here at 1:00 but it was about 4:30 by the time they got my orders for the isolation and dose.  MUSC is a teaching hospital, and alot of the nurses and even docs seem almost amazed by what I'm having done.  They came in with a geiger counter and immediate I was lighting up the scale.  Immediately at 1' I was showing 97 whatevers, 3' was 34

So far its been so good... I guess... It certainly could be a ton worse.  I've been in here 24 hours now and overall I'm ok.  I havent had any naseau so far.... I did wake up in the middle of the night with my salivary glands HUGE and PAINFUL!!  I've been drinking water, and sucking on my sour jolly ranchers, but it must not be enough.  I look like a big fat chipmunk and I can only imagine what I looked like last night.  I was in alot of pain last night. The swelling today is not near as bad but it still hurts.  I guess I could show you a picture... but I look even worse than I did after surgery!  LoL~ 

If you see my jaws are much more round than they normally are!  Its no fun having these glands swollen like this!  When I woke up last night I drank and drank water... started massaging them which did give immediate relief.  I'd massage, use heat packs, which would continue to give immediate relief, but kept me up all night!!

The nuclear safety guy came in again today and took some measurements with his geiger counter.  Yesterday at 1' I was at 97, and today I'm at 17.  He actually hung out with me and explained to me in detail about RAI and how I'll not "contaminate" anything after 2-3 days.  Yes, I'll still radiate, but not contaminate.  So I'll go home tomorrow and just as a precaution to help protect the kids, I'll stay quarantined at home until Monday.  We will still send Chris to the daycare next week since he loves to hang out with me.  The safety guys said by the end of that week I'll be more than fine to resume normal activity even with baby Chris.

I'll be SO happy to eat some normal food!  Noisy Oyster... I want some shrimp n grits please!!!  LoL!!!