I am glad that everything went well with the PET scan. I saw your post about the radiation. I may be turning the tables and asking you some questions in the near future because my husband will be having radiation also. They want to get a cycle of chemo in (with xeloda and oxaliplatin) then do 6 weeks of radiation and then another round of chemo. He is very nervous about the radiation side effects. He ran into a woman that he knows recently at a meeting that has rectal cancer and she completed radiation. Unfortunatley, she was telling him all kinds of horror stories...so he is a basket case now.
His PET showed a spot on his thyroid that is being worked up to see if it is a new unrelated cancer or if it could possibly be a metastasis of the rectal cancer. So until we get that resolved, they may have to delay the start of his chemo and that would then push back the radiation... Needless to say, we weren't too happy about all that. He goes to see the head and neck surgeon this friday----wish us luck! We could use some GOOD news for a change!