Casting call

I went for pre-radiotherapy planning today!

It was very interesting; they basically make a cast of your face out of some mesh plastic, and mark up the places (based on another CT scan) where the radio beams will be aimed.

Here's a pic of me being fitted with the mesh (please ignore the obvious fat / lack of muscle... blame it on the chemo) and what it looked like afterward:

the mask

live long and prosper

Anyway, I had that and a scan. Prepping for the scan involved a cannula for the dye to be injected into me... oh boy. I had to get Dad out very quickly to get some chewing gum to get rid of the taste of the saline (he ran out quick - he'd seem me proj vom enough last Friday!)
Unfortunately, as I told the Doctor but she did it anyway, the veins in my right are as shot as the left... she couldn't advance one of the cannulas, and the one she actually did get in was in my hand.

Ugh. So painful. So bruised. Far too soon - the smell of hospitals makes me feel sick still.
The scan was straighforward, though.

Radiotherapy begins on the 27th May and will run until the 16th June. I'll be there for 10-15 mins per day, and it'll be painless, so they say :). So not long til the end of treatment at all!!

Today is the last day of anti-sickness pills! My last domperidone will be tonight!

Write soon!