Had the radiation simulation yesterday, which sucked.\u00a0 Walked into the room and it’s all white with slightly dim lighting There’s this big ass machine with a platform\/table under it.\u00a0 It has a big thing jutting out at the top above the table and two smaller things jutting out to the left and right of the table (I think both sides).\u00a0 They had me lay on a platform and posed me how I needed to be.\u00a0 They gave me a pillow case or sheet or something that went across my waste that I had to grab on each side with my hands keeping my arms slightly bent next to me.\u00a0 My head was looking up almost to the max it would with my neck extended with a little hard rubber support thing under my neck that didn’t do much.\u00a0 My legs were over a pillow thing to support my knees which was good but my heals had to stay together which was uncomfortable and how it had to be kinda put weight on my tail bone or whatever.\u00a0 They slid me around the table on the sheet I was laying on to position me under the thing above the table just right.\u00a0 Once I was in the right position they made a dotted line down the front of me with a purple marker.\u00a0 Had to lay in that awkward ass position for an hour and a half.\u00a0 By the end I could hardly stand it, my body was screaming (neck and tailbone mainly) at me to move but was able to stay in position basically perfectly until they were done ‘taking pictures’.\u00a0 I saw one as I was walking out and it looked like an x-ray but don’t know if that’s the only kind they were taking or what.\u00a0 Anyway, while I was laying there they’d all leave the room, a light on the wall would blink, a thing in a closet would kerchunk then the thing that was above the table would make a few ticking noises.\u00a0 Either that would happen again or they’d all come back in to slide new template things onto the thing above the table, or rotate the whole thing so the thing that was above the table is now to my side or underneath me.\u00a0 The thing was a damn transformer.\u00a0 the whole piece spun left and right, at least one of the things jutting out on the right or left came out and was semi-articulated and came down over over me to take some other kind of picture probably.\u00a0 Something that was on the bottom of it ended up in front of my face like a foot away at one point when the thing that was above me was under me instead.<\/p>\n
Start radiation on Monday.\u00a0 Have to be there at 8am in Skokie. which is 30-45 mins away.\u00a0 Treatment takes 10-20 mins he said.\u00a0 They said they’d let me know when my afternoon appointment is but it has to be at least 6 hours apart.\u00a0 He said probably just be 2pm.\u00a0 I have to get the dressing changed for my new catheter as well on Monday at 10:30am, that’s at Highland Park which is on the way between Skokie and home.\u00a0 I could have done it at Evanston but Highland Park is smaller, so I know the people there (and have been going there for a year and a half too).\u00a0 It’s also much less of a pain for parking and getting to where I need to be.\u00a0 It’s kind of a walk from the main entrance to the Kellog center at Evanston, where as it’s like 6 steps tops from the door in Highland Park.\u00a0 Also, parking is way easier and closer to the door at Highland Park and if I wanted they have free valet (it’s $5 at Evanston).\u00a0 So ya, there’s no reason to go to Evanston for that at all basically.<\/p>\n
Never got a response from the doctor about my new catheter about anything I ask.\u00a0 Not sure what the deal is with that but whatever I guess.\u00a0 Maybe they expected me to go back to Evanston (where they are) for dressing change and they’d talk to me then but I’m not doing that, like I said going to Highland Park for those.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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