So I had my first radiation treatment today. 29 more to go. I will have it every day, Monday - Friday, for 6 weeks. These first few are a bit longer at 20-30 minutes because they are still getting me placed and marked. Once they perfect that they say the treatments will just be about 10-15mins.
Last week they fitted me with my very own foam mold like this one. It helps keep me in the exact location better, I hope they let me take it home when we are done, it's so comfy.
So this is similar to the machine they use. I am lying flat on my mold, with my arms above my head and the machine moves all around me, my job is to lie flat, don't move, and breath normally. Seems easy enough and definitely not my strong points as far as lying flat and not moving, but this will give me a good opportunity to get better at it. They said I did good today, yeah me!
"X: marks one of my spots here. I have two more on each side of my torso, as I mentioned last blog, they are just drawn on with a sharpie and good thing cause they moved this one alittle bit today.
So as far as the experience, there was a lot of machine noises, staff yelling out numbers and coordinates, lights going on and off, and me just lying still practicing mindfully lying there and breathing normal.
I won't bore you with every radiation treatment, but do stay tuned, I get my port out next Friday, that should be interesting!
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