Last Monday I was told by one of my radiation techs that I had to go and see Doc Genest. So, early Tuesday morning Debbers and I set off to walk to the hospital. As luck would have it, another doctor was covering for Genest and it was very busy - but my radiation room was running forty minutes behind schedule so it all worked out. The doc gave me a script for some steroid cream as my skin had begun to itch somewhat. He also pointed out to me that my back was slightly burned as a result of the radiation - it goes right through the body and burns the skin on the back too! I had no idea. This radiation stuff is really freaky. It was great having company to sit and chat with as the wait was long and would otherwise have been extremely boring.
I didn't go with Logan to the CSSRA Regatta b/c of my treatments (a huge thanks to Doug and Marijke who drove a van full of boys after the school's Music Night Performance - leaving around 23:00 and driving through the night) and then on Friday morning I got a call from the hospital that one of the machines was down so my treatment was cancelled for the day! When I went in at 07:30 this morning I was told that breast cancer patients can miss one day of treatment so when a machine is down they are the first to get cancelled. Huh? One day? I don't get treatment on the weekends and I missed a day due to a stat holiday - when I asked about that I was told they don't count. I truly do not get the radiation thing - totally bizarre. As a result of missing Friday, one day has been added on to the end of my session so my last day will now be Thursday, June 7. I cannot wait until I can sleep all day long.
At a session last week the techs were re-doing my markings and discussing whether to tape or not tape. One of the marks on my abdomen ends at a freckle and the techs were talking about just using the freckle as a marker and put that into the computer file in case I lost the Sharpie mark. Brown eyes referred to it as "an inferior freckle". When he said that I of course was all over them, "That is a mighty fine freckle, thank you very much! Who are you calling inferior anyway??!!" I was trying not to giggle too much as I'm not supposed to move. At the end of the session one of the other techs came in and as she was lowering the bed so that I could get off she started to explain what they had meant by the term "inferior". I stopped her saying, "I know what you meant - I was just razzing you guys for fun!" "Oh," she responded, "We were discussing it during your treatment and we were worried that we had offended you!" Ha! My gosh that was funny - I really did laugh then. "Nope, you have to do alot more than that to offend me." The poor techs - they really are super and because of their diligence and good work I haven't lost any of my markings and haven't had to go back for anything to be recalibrated. Looking forward to Thursday:)
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