(photo H Volker)
The big news is that I made it through my second knifing. I’m starting to refer to the procedure as the Monster Mash after the old Halloween song. I was a little better prepared for the experience than I was for the maiden voyage. Got some more appropriate tunes on Spotify with Van Morrison that helped.
I have the weekend off and then have treatment sessions next week on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. This means that I will be gone for the morning walks on Monday and Thursday. But still open Tuesday and Sunday afternoons.
Underneath all this I am not making fun of our incrediable medical technology. Nor am I ungrateful for it in my own case. The point that I make is that the experience is darn weird. There must be some sort of medical specialist that handles making things somewhat warm and fuzzy for the patient. Although I find as I go along that the patient is sort of expected to put up with it all.
My Cyberknife doctor described the basic action of the radiation beams as follows. It is akin to starting a dry leaf aflame by concentrating the sun’s light with a magnifying glass. We all can relate to that idea, Mr Wizard showed us. So a number of relatively harmless beams converge at a very tiny spot in the target with each shot and the tumor is entirely dealt with over the five sessions, one little bit at a time.
I am trying to keep this is mind when the dinosaur is inches from my face and I am studying the business end at extremely close range. It does appear to take many shots through my face to hit the target way back behind my ear. My Rebecca said, “Creepy!” Yes, what am I telling you.
And beside that my headache still persists, no relief yet. My cough has been back burnered. So, that life right now. Sorry to subject you to all this but feel like I must report the news.
Off to more cleanup here at the house. Over night guest coming. Have walkers coming tomorrow for the afternoon walk and hope the weather brightens up a little. Pretty Northwesty out there right now.
Monster Mash loves, Felipé.
I believe that they mainly use Gamma Rays but I will get to try Electron Beam next month these only penetrate in about 1 CM as oppose to Gamma Radiation which goes right through.I have also had UVA too which is invisible to the naked eye and sadly it didn’t work infact that was the first non cream/tablet treatment they tried on me.most of the patients who went there had UVB and I think that they suffered from psoriasis and ezecma.from my understanding of potency it goes; UVB, UVA, Electron Beam,Gamma Rays,X Rays.So although the Electron Beam is less potent than Gamma Radiation they can do they whole body instead of bits.
Kevan ~ like I was saying, it all seems so weird. The stuff works but it all seems so other worldly. God luck as always to you friend, Felipé.
Glad to know you’re still digging Van the Man. Astral Weeks is very pilgrimage-y
Catalina ~ yea, love Van. Anything to bridge over the weirdness. Felipé.x
Hi boss,
Definitely, medicine has become all “weirdy”, no matter what. We are all grateful of what science applied to medicine (in this case physics) has brought to all of us, but when we stop to think about it all, the ways to describe it “amazing” and “too weird”. Both ends are totally true.
Human loves,
Cris
Cris ~ thank you for cranking out the post today. I actually need some extra time. We have a party of four coming to walk and tapa. It is drizzly out so have to bring tapas inside. We are struggling to get the house cleaned up enough to be presentable. It is part of coming out after the pandemic, a worthy cause. Felipé.x
Hey, I am trying to pretend that the salary you pay to me has a reason!!!! LOL!!!
Cris ~ about the salary, we are a little short in the coffers here this month and will have to hold your check for a few days. the Boss.x