Three chemos -- what's happening? During all this, I thought many times about how beneficial it would be for Jackie and the doctors if we all had transparent skin. Pretty disgusting I guess, but it all depends on what you are used to. Anyway, we're not transparent, so it was time to use technology to look inside Jackie and see what was going on.

It looked like it might be in her liver, but we needed a special liver scan to tell for sure.

However, in other places there seemed to be less tumor.

We were scared, but we didn't have all the information. Jackie scheduled and took the liver test. She was lucky enough to find a radiologist who believed that the liver test was inconclusive, and while radiologists usually leave the test taking to assistants, he came in and personally did an additional ultrasound at no extra charge. The ultrasound confirmed his theory that she had a hemangioma. He told her that he had one as well, it was just a weird spot in the liver and that he didn't believe that it was a problem. But, they would need to recheck it later to see if it had changed.

Reading films is a bit of an art form, and to a large extent it is a net change comparison that radiologists do to tell what's really going on. Therefore, radiologists get their best information from looking at the before and after images(I'm not referring to things like broken bones, but things that are rather hard to see, like cancer).