cancer gets me up in the morning

cancer gets me up in the morning

cancer brings me to unaccustomed places

where i talk to haughty but dedicated doctors

and smart sometimes absurdly foxy nurses

cancer is travel and new venues

cancer is meet and greet

cancer is hospital

cancer is invitation to biology

and how all these tests

ct-scans mris pet scans

do their thing

as my mri tech said

there's a lot of physics involved

he was a smart guy

from china

who'd been an architect

then a software engineer

and is now an mri pro

whose exact title i forget

have you ever had an mri?

makes the sound of a

rock concert seem muted

led zeppelin wouldn't be heard over an mri

there's this pulsing between the magnets and the electricity

maxwell's equations in hi decibel action

that is dreadful

unless you are a fan of weird electronic music

i asked feng the mri tech

do you like electronic music

yes

but not like that! that's horrible!

feng is entitled to his opinion

getting back to tests

to scanning

espec pet scans

pet short for

position emission tomography

i am left wondering about what positrons

(the anti-matter version of the electron)

can tell the doctors and the nurses

about cancer

my cancer

my wakeup

squamous cell cancer

and intend to look into this