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I had my radiation treatment, and then I left there, stopped by the Wawa for coffee and made it to the oncologist’s office about 15 minutes late. They told me at the radiology lab that tomorrow, it will go much faster. It seems they had to waif for someone to come and load my profile into the computer.
You may ask why they didn’t do this yesterday. Good question and I don’t have the answer.
I closed my eyes during the radiation treatment and, sure enough, I saw light when the machine was zapping me. They shot me twice for about 20 seconds at a time. One shot from each side. The light I say was light purple and it was filamentous. I’ll have to ask the radio oncologist why I could see light. I’m guessing it’s because the radiation stimulated some part of my visual system. I don’t know if it just caused the light sensors to be simulated or if it causes them to fluress.
They just finished the Benadryl and now they’re giving me the Tagamet. The girl doing the poking got the vein on the first try. She found one down near my wrist. I’m experiencing a little pain at the drip site. Although the liquid is at room temperature, it’s giving me a dull ache at the injection site. I got them to retrieve my scarf and have wrapped it around my wrist to keep it warm. I think a better solution would have been to run the plastic tubing through some warm water, but I’m afraid that’s asking a bit much. However, the scarf seems to be helping the ache.
By the way, the Benadryl degrades my already poor typing skill.
Posted by The Vorlon at March 7, 2006 11:06 AMThe first time that I went in for a "nuclear stress test", I had to wait for 45 minutes because no one had a key for the lab. I asked if they were concerned about some stealing their equipment. They said that they were worried about some one stealing the nuclear material. Interesting.
Posted by: Ned Swift at March 7, 2006 1:03 PM