Not too bad

After being given an Ativan to help relax me (and to help me sleep once I got home), I was taken into a new room for my treatment. It took about 30 minutes for them to adjust my head and the mask to match the previously taken films exactly. Once that was completed, they took more images of the first tumor and then performed the treatment. There were five "zaps" (I didn't feel anything, just heard the machine) lasting from 10 to 22 seconds each, and the equipment was rotated to a new position after each zap (for lack of a better term). Then they adjusted the equipment, took images of the second tumor and then performed the treatment again (same deal). In total, the session lasted about 90 minutes. The others this week will be shorter.

Afterward, I received my appointment time for today (11:25) but no others for the week despite my trying to nail them down. They did inform me that the earliest appointment they had for Friday was 1 p.m., which doesn't work for me because I have a 2 p.m. appointment in New Jersey for Zometa. I'm going to push that issue today, because I do not want to miss the Zometa treatment since I am at the outer limit for that.

Other than waking up after an excellent night's sleep with pink skin where my tan was, I feel fine. No loss of hair yet and no sensitivity on my head at all. That may change shortly.

I'll be uploading the rest of our cruise photos soon. And for those who were wondering, Royal Caribbean recommends that women wear a T-shirt over their bathing suit when using the FlowRider. I decided to wear my bathing suit cover up, which normally ends around mid-thigh but stretched out to hit me below my knees by the time my hour session was up. It may not have been the look some were expecting, but it kept all my bathing suit pieces in their proper places despite that rushing water!