Today was
the first day to meet with the radiation therapist. The appointment went by really fast. It was a
lot of paperwork. The doctor came in to have a look at the mass. He talked
about what kind of plan we would have and said it would last for 5 to 6 weeks. I
will have to be there every day except for weekends. I also found out that
there will be some side effects. There is a chance that I will lose my hair. I
have already told Christy if it starts to come out I’m just going to shave it
all off. There will also be redness and feel like a sun burn. I won’t be able
to be out in the sun or in extreme heat. So after talking to the doctor one of the
nurses came in to take me in to get a CT scan and do the mapping for the
therapy. The guy kinda looked like a child molester; scary thing about that is
the first thing he said when we got in the other room was take off your shirt. So
joking aside they had me lay down on the table face down and he and the other female
nurse positioned me into the position I will be in for every treatment. I am
adding two pictures to this post to show everyone the large mass on my back. In
the other picture you will be able to see where they drew all the lines on my
back that is the mapping they did today.
After the
mapping they did the CT scan. It only took about 5 minutes and I was out of
there. It will take the doctor about 3 days to plan everything out on how my
treatment will go, how long I will be in the machine, and how many weeks I will
have treatment. So it will be next week before they call me to let me know when
my treatments will start.
Mentally all
of this has started to wear on me. I am at the beginning of all of this and have
a long way to go. I have been very stressed and a little depressed this last
week. I am trying really hard to stay positive but it’s hard to stay that way
all the time. It would be nice if we could move all this along a little faster.
Not have all the waiting from doctor appointment to doctor appointment. I am
still not sleeping all that much. I am kinda surprised I am not jumping down people’s
throats from lack of sleep.
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So I guess
here in the next week or two I’ll be radioactive and begin to glow!
I know waiting is tough, we have both done our share of it lately. Yes, it will take a lot of strength and perseverance for you to withstand the next several weeks. However, you are a strong man with youth on your side. Kevin, I don't mean to minimize your radiation treatment. But, just a little food for thought. Your Grandma went through five weeks radiation at the tender age of 75. Point is, she went through the treatment with some bit of difficulty, but over all, came through with flying colors. I know you will, too. I have faith that this will work for you. Love you.
ReplyDeletegrr accept my post you stupid blog!!
ReplyDeleteYou got it to work that time!!!
Deleteyou remeber that time you go stuck on a wall in the rain when your belayer was trying out a new method and a new piece of gear? (and you were totally safe the whole time) and it took the belayer a while to get it to work it was kinda like that :-)
DeleteAh-ha!!! I did it, Kev you should be proud it only took me 5 tries to get this thing to work, i wish you could have been here to see me, it's been quite funny, now the trouble is i don't remember exactly what i was trying to say.
ReplyDeleteoh, yeah, when i had my head caved in they drew and wrote on my face right before i went in for surgery and all i could think about was in the movies when a guy passes out and his buddies draw dirty pictures and write cuss words on his face. So i had to go into surgery wondering what was on my face. So i have a feeling you were pretty glad to get home and see the pictures of just exactly what were they doing back there.
p.s. your blog hates me. lol