Labs, CT, and PET Scans at UPenn

 Today is a marathon day. After a great sleep at a hotel outside of the city, we’re headed into Philadelphia University City to the University of Pennsylvania Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine for all of my tests. 

 Before leaving, I couldn’t help but giggle at the continued, and unexpected, continuation of my shark theme. This was the shower set at our hotel:

 Now for the traffic report. We planned an early morning to get on the road and avoid as much traffic as possible. To put this in perspective, there are 738,700 people in ALL of Alaska. That’s just 1.3 person per square mile, just the way we like it. Now we’re on the road with the population of Philadelphia, 1.57 million, expand that to the surrounding areas, where we stayed, it expands to 6.33 million. Now add in the FIFA World Cup international visitors for the final game in just 2 days and we’re swimming in people. So far, my driver (my husband), has been doing a phenomenal job ducking and weaving through the lanes. I finally caved and got Waze (thanks Mom) which has been a tremendous help in finding the best route and knowing any upcoming hazards. 

 Today’s itinerary with a big shout out to MyChart by Epic, which makes it so easy to plan a day of appointments, even from 4,290 miles away:

0900 - Labs for ongoing clinical trial research

1000 - CT Scan of Chest, Abdomen, and Pelvis

1030 - Nuclear medication injection for PET Scan - see my past post for all the nuclear PET scan fun

1330 - PET Scan

~1430 - Drive 272 miles to Brookville to see my parents

 See you on the flip side!