Day Two

Day two was much like day one, only more Two-ish. This is the CT scan machine, it runs circles around you...

Pictures from day one

No sweat - they zapped me with the ray gun but it didn't bother me a bit. It is somewhat intimidating, and it moves around you as it zaps you. They zap you from 4 angles, 12-3-6-9 clockwise. Or is it counter clockwise? I'm enclosing picture of the zapper, real pictures of my pelvis, and a radiation danger sign. I ain't afraid...

Day One

Today is my first day of radiation. Karl is going to pick me up at 3:30 for my 4:00 appointment. I can drive to and from radiation treatment, but Karl just wants to go and check it out. I've been to the place before and met the radiation oncologist, Dr. Dzuik (pronounced "Juke"). In the office where I saw him, he must have had 50 pictures of John Wayne and a dozen John Wayne artifacts (including, I think - John Wayne toilet paper). I asked the tech why, and he said some people think his name sounds like "Duke" not "Juke", so therefore all the pictures of "The Duke". I really like Dr. Dzuik. When I met him he did a CT scan on the rectum and we looked at the pictures together and he showed me the tumor. I asked him if it was a "big one" and he said not particularly. I've heard "it's not particularly big" before when talking about that area, but this time I was glad to hear it.