Sunday, February 11, 2007

I promised to get some pictures up so today I will! These pics are taken at the RMCC - Littleton office where I get my radiation therapy done. I'll try to put a description underneath each to explain what they are. Chris took these when he and Andrea came down to see what happened back in the room behind the thick door! While he was taking these Tod, the RT tech who zaps me, explained everything to them and what they were doing.

This is Phyllis, Dr. Leonard's nurse and the lady that takes care of all of us getting RT. She has a great sense of humor and is a lot of fun but also very knowledgeable and helpful when it comes to what I have going on. She has been a huge comfort and help to the whole family.

This is my mask that they use to strap me down to the RT table for my treatments. There is a hole at the mouth so I can get my bite block in and three holes in the forehead for aligning everything to my tattoos. The pins in the blue frame are what lock me to the table and keep me from moving. It's not as cool as the chain mail coif that I made but it works for what they are doing!

This is me strapped to the table in my mask and I have my bite block in (my lips aren't green! its the mouth piece!). You can see the frame on the bite block and the balls on it really lit up from the camera flash. The balls are part of a room GPS type thing that lets the computer know where I am. Once they align me to the room and and the machine to me then everyone leaves the room and my treatments begin. Once a week they take a couple of x-rays for quality purposes just to make sure that I am still in the same spot that I started in.

I'm feeling much better today over yesterday. Thankfully the hangover lasts only one day. The day after I get a bit of nausea but I can work through that. Just taking another lazy day to store up my energy for the fight.