Sorry for the lack of communication but Friday was a crazy frustrating day and I needed to step back and review the details before reporting. (Quite adult and not like me).
Morning started at 5:45AM at the hospital. Dressed in my "high fashion" gown I was lead into the "Radiation Room". Since this was my first treatment and they finished my mask there was still some marking, measuring and films to take before I was ready. Approximately 40 minutes it was all done with approx 10 minutes of that time having a high dosage radiation beam pointing at my brain. Off the table and to Nurse "M" for vitals, etc. Seems Nurse "M" isn't a "Morning Person" and like to treat patients like mental midgets with no common sense. Next to the resident who basically asked if I had any questions - "No, not really". It's now about 7:25AM and still need to see the Doctor who (allegedly) has been paged. Waiting, waiting, waiting.....all the while knowing I needed to be in Lake Zurich for a meeting. Well, let's blame it on the STEROIDS! At 8:05AM (I gave 40 minutes) I calmly collected myself, opened the door and stepped towards to elevator where the Resident see me and says "maybe the doctor didn't get my page " (maybe you forgot to send one!). I calmly looked at her and said "she knows my number, if you wants to talk to me have her call" as I entered the elevator and left.
So a 2 hour drive to get to my meeting I decide to stop for gas before arriving. As I enter the gas station I see a car backing out of a space so I wait until they are out so I can pull in. As the car backs up and sees me the next thing I know an 80+ year old man give me the finger! DAY COMPLETE!!!!
One side note to my crazy day - as I sat in the meeting we were being shown a new technology of data being transmitted on a piece of glass via LED's. etc. Think of the TV show CHUCK and how things flicker through his head. The next thing I know is I'm looking around the room and all I could see is the Microsoft symbol in full color (red, yellow, blue green) with a bright flashing light in the middle floating around the room. Almost like a "floater" in living color. Now it's in the middle of one of the guys face - somethings happening folks. I quickly excuse myself and leave the meeting room calling for assistance where friend Kelly decides what I need is a hug. Well, as soon as I looked at her dark hair it disappears. Craziest thing I ever saw. Hopefully when I talk to the doctor I'll have more to report but my guess is between the treatment and the rapid movement of the data I was being shown my brain went into overload.
Anyway - it was a great restful weekend. Tired, but able to once again relax and ready to start a new week of radiation and chemo treatments.
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