9% Done

9% done with the magic that is XRT. Without having to have xrays, radiation is about a 10 minute process.  Once the team is ready for me its head into the treatment room, go limp body so they can line up my tattoos and laser beams, treatment then off to work. Pretty simple. So far no burning, but already applying Jean's cream twice a day to prevent it.

While chatting with one of the Radiation Techs (she has been at the hospital for 29 years) I mentioned that my mother worked in radiation at the hospital when the site first opened. Well all the Techs were so interested they found one of the employees (one of the receptionists) who has been in the radiation building since it opened and this is what she dug up:

 

Here is Mom (right center) with her radiation friends and my brother in his best Osh Gosh (I'm in her belly here!)

 

Above is a flier from when the center opened

 

And here is an enlarged photo (that's Mom on the left!) 

Well, now I will never finish my radiation treatment because my mother will have killed me for the above photos. However, it is interesting to discuss with her how different the treatment is now. When the site first opened for breast radiation patients sat in a chair and the chair rotated around the machine. That just seems like one really bad amusement park ride. I think I'll take laying down with a bean bag mold and the starship enterpirse rotating over me. 3 treatments down, 30 more to go!