Here comes the "sun"...

     Well radiation therapy is underway.  I must say the people who work there have what they need to do down like a well oilled machine!  I was in and out in about 15 minutes.  Right now I have permenant marker on my upper chest area and part of my throat of where the field of radiation is.  Trust me it is not attractive!  I feel at time like a cross between an etch a sketch and Dr. Hannibal Lecter with the mask on in Silence of the Lambs :) 
     When I am laying on the machine getting prepped for the radiation they have to take a picture of me to show the "field" that they are radiating for their files.  There is a young guy (of course lol) that works there and was taking the picture of me while I am locked in my mask and I jokingly say to him "this isn't going to end on facebook is it?"  he anwered very quickly "oh no no" ....poor guy lol!   So as of now I have two treatments down and 16 more to go.  I am putting on sun block so I don't get red from the treatment.  It was sort of anticlimactic after I put it on because the lotion reminded me of the beach or sitting by a pool--yet I was going to sit and be cooked by a machine inside :(  
     I am so happy really to be at this point of the treatment.  I really can't beat being in and out in roughly 15 minutes.   So right now things are going well and I really can't complain because so many of my hopes and prayers have been answered.  I am soon going to me in the market  for a really strong loofah sponge because after all of this is finished I am scrubing my skin hard to get all the evidence of any pen marking on me.  :)   Soon enough!


**on another note--I want to give a special thanks to a friend of mine that passed away unexpectedly the other day.  I just hope she knows how much she will be missed and how much she helped me last year taking on my long term sub job when I was out on maternity leave.  So here's  a toast and quiet sarcastic jokes(but loving lol) we would do-- to you friend!  May you rest in peace~

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
- Winston Churchill