Radiation begins......

Started radiation Wednesday.

Machine broke down Thursday.

Resumed Friday.

I get a CT scan first, then the radiation.

Takes about 13 minutes altogether.

I walk in, hand the guy my ID, slip into

the dressing room, change from the

waist up, go sit in a chair, they call me,

I lay down on the machine, they push

and pull till I'm in there right, then the

bed moves halfway into the donut.

It sounds like I'm laying in the middle

of a kid's choo choo train track. 

It sounds like a little choo choo train is

going round and round and round.

They said the effect is cumulative and I'll get more and more tired as we go. 

This picture is of a different type machine than I go into.  It's close enough.

My appt is 4:20 every weekday.  I cannot wear deodorant or skin lotion.  I said, "Why not."

They said, "Because you'll catch on fire."