We decided to go
ahead with radiation therapy. It is not
to treat the cancer, but palliative.
We will be trying
to shrink the tumor on my neck to take the pressure of my nerves feeding into
my shoulder, arm, hands, and fingers.
The pain is
terrible, and sleeping is a struggle. If
it works it will be welcome, and greatly improve my quality of life.
I will be going
for a week to two weeks (five to ten days).
Considering each of those trips is ten to twelve hours in shackles, this
will not be a picnic.
I will be getting
a tattoo, likely tattoos, which will be dots that will be used to aim the laser
when getting the radiation.
Dr. Bradley said
they will radiate the mass in my neck, and the lymph nodes in that area.
I saw my first
dragonflies, or dragonfly (it may have been the same one twice) of the year
running this morning. On the medical
trip the roadsides were laced with a wonderful bounty of wildflowers:
lavenders, yellows, whites, yellow oranges, and purples. Plus, a plethora or gorgeous red wing
blackbirds. It was absolutely delicious.
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