Thursday 28th April 2005
As Peter said in his comments yesterday the treatment wasn't as bad as I feared and once again the nursing staff were fantastic at reassuring me. Claire even set it up so I could have a few words with Alf before my treatment he's the guy who made my mask. ( In a previous post I'd mentioned I was slightly claustrophobic when wearing it). Anyway he said he'd been and looked at my schedule as to how much radiotherapy I was going to have each day and it's only 2.5 mins each side of my throat so in total 5 mins he said that is less time then it took to make the mask and I did fine with that.
I was a little nervous when I first laid down and they fixed the mask to the table as I'd forgotten how tight it was but I closed my eyes and let the relaxation cd run through my mind and that helped a great deal and it was soon over with...
I haven't had a very good night's sleep, I don't know why as I felt fine maybe I was still worried about today as the thought of that mask is still bothering me.
Only 19 more days to go!...smiles