Plans in Place

Wow, what a feeling to know that plans are now in place.

It all started Friday afternoon. The MRI films that Dartmouth had been waiting for all week finally arrived so the doctors could get on the same page. From the time the doctors got the MRI in Hanover it was a matter of hours before they wanted me coming down to get started. I spoke with them at 3:00pm and by 6:00pm, I had received my first Radiation treatment. I also received another two today and will restart Monday morning. I will be receiving about 2 treatments a day for 12 days of radiation in Hanover, NH. This means we will be up here in Hanover. Side effects are fatigue, nausea, sore throat, rashes and red skin. I remember the soar throat can get pretty bad. It might be a lot of Jello, Pudding and Ice Cream if that is the case. I can tell you what. I am on steroids right now for the pain and radiation and they make me hungry 24x7. My face is about as round as a balloon.

Just an FYI, radiation does Publish Postnot hurt. It is very similar to lying in an X-Ray room. They lay you down, they line you up and then they zap the area they want to treat with Radiation. In this case they are radiating the tumor which has engulfed the spinal cord. The danger of the radiation is compromising and compressing the spinal cord, which could lead to me becoming paralyzed from the spot where the spinal cord would compress. This is so f&*&ing scary. So so so so scary. I pray this does not happen, but if it were I pray that I have my hands, so I can at least hold Alek. However, if I were paralyzed the worst thing would be is that I could see Alek grow.

So, I would like to catch up with a bunch of you this week. Please feel to post comments. Many of you have already done this and I think it is great to hear your thoughts and have them put into this blog. Love you all.

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