Radition - Check !!
One more experience recorded. After a clean CT scan report, the process has begun.
The doctor gave me a tour of the machine and the process.
Strange ! It really does not have any radioactive material.
Its just a linear particle accelerator.
When switched off, even kids can play on the machine and nothing will happen. No one sports a lead-apron like we have seen in the movies !
When ON, no one other that the person going through radiation can be inside. Of course, the room has solid 1.2M wide concrete walls for the rays not to escape ! Sophisticated monitoring happens from outside.
Once changing in to a hospital gown, walk in to the chamber, sleep on the bed, under the radiator !
The custom made Mask is fixed on the face and most of the radiated part is made immobile by tightening the mask with fixtures.
For about 5 mins after that, there will be a few machine noise, the the nurses come back in again, and release the fixtures so that one can walk out.
As simple as that.
The scariest part was, when my face, head was immobilized, they technicians were calibrating and setting up the machine precisely. And they were talking among themselves, "left side or right side ?" ! Fundamental confusions when you can not talk but can listen ? I guess they did radiate only the left side, which is right :)
When I did come out, they took my temperature, my BP etc.
The medicine oncologist did not budge to request of Chemo reduction :) OK ! I tried. Some single agent Chemo, each Friday starting tomorrow. That will be a day long process, in a bed, with IV fluid and medicine dripping in.
That will be a new experience tomorrow !! Looking forward to, now that it is inevitable.
One more experience recorded. After a clean CT scan report, the process has begun.
The doctor gave me a tour of the machine and the process.
Strange ! It really does not have any radioactive material.
Its just a linear particle accelerator.
When switched off, even kids can play on the machine and nothing will happen. No one sports a lead-apron like we have seen in the movies !
When ON, no one other that the person going through radiation can be inside. Of course, the room has solid 1.2M wide concrete walls for the rays not to escape ! Sophisticated monitoring happens from outside.
Once changing in to a hospital gown, walk in to the chamber, sleep on the bed, under the radiator !
The custom made Mask is fixed on the face and most of the radiated part is made immobile by tightening the mask with fixtures.
For about 5 mins after that, there will be a few machine noise, the the nurses come back in again, and release the fixtures so that one can walk out.
As simple as that.
The scariest part was, when my face, head was immobilized, they technicians were calibrating and setting up the machine precisely. And they were talking among themselves, "left side or right side ?" ! Fundamental confusions when you can not talk but can listen ? I guess they did radiate only the left side, which is right :)
When I did come out, they took my temperature, my BP etc.
The medicine oncologist did not budge to request of Chemo reduction :) OK ! I tried. Some single agent Chemo, each Friday starting tomorrow. That will be a day long process, in a bed, with IV fluid and medicine dripping in.
That will be a new experience tomorrow !! Looking forward to, now that it is inevitable.
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