positron, cancer and carbs
Posted: April 13, 2013 Filed under: cancer, figures of speech | Tags: a good time to be alive, cancer, PET scan, positron, thyroid cancer 34 CommentsA positron is an electron with a positive charge. Some say it gets this charge by traveling backward through time. Eventually it meets a normal negatively charged electron and BOOM anti-matter, meet matter and photons are released. Based on where pairs of photons are detected, a computer calculates the point the photons were created and uses that to map your body. Brilliant thought, brilliant execution. We take it for granted. I certainly can’t understand but I trust it.
A tech injects a small amount of radioactive glucose ( glowing sugar so to speak ) and assumes your cancer tumors will be hungriest and suck up more than their share of the glowing sugar. The machine maps the glow to find the tumors. Magic seemingly, but really outstanding science.
I had heard that sweets are bad for cancer, but didn’t understand the reasoning. But this made me see the connection. It seems that sugar and carbs feed tumors, and that’s good to know when fighting them. At the cellular level, cancer is a hungry beast. Diet is a weapon too.
So here in my body we may have cancer struggling for immortality with cells that refuse to die, and the very fabric of time and space is harnessed in the fight. What an amazing time to be alive.
Of course maybe in time and space this time there’s nothing to be found.
bwthoughts 
Interesting and informative.
thanks — hope it’s never useful for you 🙂
You win, the beast loses. Basta. 🙂 I admire your strenght Bill. hugs
I hope the miracle of science finds only finds cancer free space!
You continue to be in my thoughts….
how amazing, I am usually in my own thoughts too 🙂
Being a physics person, I love how you’ve woven this together…but I hate that you’ve had to. My thoughts are with you.
interesting that cancer’s immortality is my mortality. One must supersede the other. I think there might be a poem in there somewhere with the positron traveling backward in the time continuum.
“…Of course maybe in time and space this time there’s nothing to be found.”
I hope and pray for your sake, your family’s, and ours, too.
What an amazing story you weave about your life, your struggles, science, computers, food, philosphy, and life itself. You are something else, Bill.
thanks Randy — I think we are all something — even that knuckleheaded diver today 🙂
what diver?
some knuckle-headed woman 🙂
oh that explains it all… thanks
God is the great healer and physician, standing on faith that all wil be well.
thanks Len — hope you are feeling better with the spring 🙂
prayers being said and my thoughts are with you.
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Healthy diet and exercise – old fashioned but that’s the way to go I reckon and leave the rest to Him.
healthy food, the best doctors you can find, prayers and not much else.
Its great to hear that there are some new (to me at least) methods to combat cancer. Here’s hoping it works well
yes, and the old things like diet and rest remain part of the arsenal. Thanks for stopping by 🙂
its amazing how much good a healthy diet can do you for body! And thank you as well, for checking out my own blog.
seems to me that you have the persistence to make writing work. It makes sense to follow a success 🙂
Thank you very much 🙂 I appreciate your support! (you also made me blush a little 😉 )
I’m sure you have a lovely blush. Nothing bad comes from knowing others believe in you. I have found it a great thing, and try to pass it along.
I will keep that in mind and definitely pay it forward 🙂
What an amazing time to be alive indeed. Here’s hoping there’s nothing to be found. 🙂
yep – here’s to that for sure
I’m in your corner – sending good thoughts and prayers…
:), I will rearrange the furniture for more room 🙂
Are you implying I have a big butt??? hahaha
Oh no… a trick question 🙂
a trick question would mean you’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t…that’s not the case here…
just messin’ with ya – enjoy the rest of your weekend. 🙂
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