Yesterday I finished my fifth round of short-course radiation treatment. This is to make sure that my rectal tumor stays at bay while also killing off one of my lymph nodes that has succumbed to cancer. When I left they gave me a little certificate:
I was pretty taken-aback by …
read moreJust a quick update about what's going on over here. I'm on day three of my five-day radiation treatment. It's been pretty interesting. The machine just rotates around me and delivers radiation levels as high as 45 grays (JoDee did the conversion into Sieverts and the response from her was …
read moreWanted to drop a quick status update for how things are going over here:
Since I'm likely to be out of commission after my surgery on the first week of November tings are (understandably) compressed at work. Doing my best to keep focus and not try to do multiple things …
So it looks like what I'd previously thought was a plan is not a plan at all. Sigh. I'd thought I had about a month before surgery but that's not the case. It looks like my surgery is at the beginning of November, not the middle of December as I …
read moreSo it looks like my butt will be officially irradiated on the week of 10/10 (Hey Europeans, finally you can stop whining about month-first dates. :) ). On Friday apparently they do pre-flight checks to make sure everything is ready for bake-off. This is going to be an interesting experience for …
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