Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Treatment - radiation

Ok - so about the treatment. After seeing many different doctors, I decided to be treated by doctors at E hospital. They have a cancer institute in a new building, and I really like the nice library they have where you can borrow books from. Anyway, the current plan is to start radiation and chemo on Sept 13, for 6-7 weeks. Radiation will be done 5 times a day. I just went to get "simulation" done for radiation - they marked my body with blue sharpie and I have to keep these marks until the treatment is over. I have not met with an oncologist about the chemo yet but according to the radiologist, chemotherapy doesn't need any preparation while radiation needs a few days of preparation, so it is better to schedule radiation ahead of time. Radiation would only take like 15 min. - so it will not be too bad. I was excited to learn that they validate valet parking when you are going through radiation treatment!

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