7/30/21

It’s Friday, and my day started early. I was at MD Anderson by 7 AM for my bloodwork. I flunked again. I have got to start studying harder for those tests. My white blood count only went up .3, and I won’t know until Monday if that’s good enough to start radiation. I went back this afternoon for a radiation session, but without the radiation. It was a dry run. They marked up my body again, so now I have red and blue sharpie marks all over my torso. It looks like a three-year-old was coloring on my body.

I was there about an hour and a half for this appointment. They put me in the machine, put my mask on me, and strapped me down. There were laser lights on the ceiling and I had to watch them the entire time. There was a green rectangle box and about 4 feet away from that box there was a blue line. There was a yellow line I could see when I was breathing. I had to hold my breath, and that yellow line would move toward the green rectangle. When the yellow line reached the inside of the rectangle, I had to hold it there. It’s harder than you think. Sometimes I held it for a short duration, and sometimes a long time. It took some practice to get that yellow line to stay inside that rectangle. All the time I was doing that, the machine had these giant arms that kept going around me. No one was in the room with me, but I could hear them telling me what to do on the speaker. They took more x-rays, put some more marks on my abdomen and chest, and I left.

I didn’t see the doctor today, so I don’t know for sure if they’re going to start radiation on Monday or not. I have another blood test first thing Monday morning, so they may wait for those results before they make up their mind. I don’t know. I have three appointments on Monday, so I should have some answers by the end of that day. I did not have my CAT scan results back yet, unless they don’t put those on my chart, and only release them to the doctor.

I have a lot of exercises to do every day, so they take up a great deal of my time. I was in the RV this evening when the storm rolled in. Wow! The RV was shaking. We had lots of wind, rain, thunder, and lightning. I could see lightning strikes all around me and it was blooming so very, very loud. I lost Internet, but no power, so I’m not sure when this post will actually go out.

No matter what life throws at me, at least I can say I don’t have ugly children.

I’m glad I married. Being single must suck. All they do, all the time, is whatever they want.


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  1. Shelley RenakerJuly 31, 2021 at 6:53 AM

    Patty, wondering what the big machine is with the laser lights on the ceiling that you were in? What was the purpose of that? Sounded like a strange video game. Wondering if that helps guide the docs for your radiation treatment?

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