Verification Simulation Day

Its the first day before the first day of radiation called the verification simulation day -- the dress rehearsal if you will. During this appointment, they inform you, "we will verify your treatment fields by taking xrays. they collorate points set out on you last week from the "planning " And tattoo additional points to aim for. Yes, tattoo. little inky dots around my torso.

The nurses were unpleasantly cheery because of a big holiday party coming up where they would perform routine. I only half tried to give a shit.

They let me into the "Tahoe Room" An antichamber if you will. After they finished the dress rehearsal, they told me I would in fact be radiatied today? What? I wasn't ready -- for my blog's sake. But I let them sap me for a few minutes, still in the exact position for about a half hour, only thinking of warm blue waves of healing splashing though my body. And that was it. not a big deal the beginning. I'll go into some real detail about the machine in future posts. The nurses agreed to let me take pictures for the blog tomorrow, so cool that. Anyway should I feel duped into my first treatment?