"After today, we give Zara’s body time to reset," Dr. Mercer explains, looking between the two of us. "The drugs will stay in her system working over the next couple of weeks. She’ll have the usual post-chemo fatigue and side effects for the next few days… which I know you both know how to manage well by now. Then, we let her rest for about three weeks."
She reaches across her desk, tapping a button on her tablet to bring up a calendar, pointing to a date near the end of the month.
"At the four-week mark, we’ll bring you back in for a full suite of diagnostic testing," Dr. Mercer continues. "We'll run a comprehensive blood panel, and more importantly, we’ll do a high-resolution PET scan and an MRI."
A cold prickle of fear traces its way down my spine at the word scan. Scan anxiety is a
