Sorry to keep on bothering everyone with questions.I am 42 year old female with 2 children-a 15 year old daughter and an 8 year old son.I Home Educate both of them.I also have a 45 year old husband who is depressed over my illness.My question is - what precautions do I have to take around my children,husband and my children's pets [ they have 7 Guinea Pigs;4 Bunnies; 1 cat-that live indoors & 2 dogs that live outdoors] afte 1 take the radioactive pill for my thyroid scan? I have read that for at least 24 hours that some o the radiation will be excreted through my urine and sweat.I do not want to expose my family or the children'd beloved pets to radiation. What can I expect the reaction that I will have to the pill? The Nuclear Medicine Department in the small Hospital that I will be seen is is closed on weekends and I can't call them with questions on the weekend. I am very frightened. My Physician Assisant prescibed some Xanax and it is relaxing me some. I realise that if I do have cancer tat it is easily treated, however, it still frightens me. How have you all dealt with this? HELP!!