Week 1 done

Happy October! Happy Fall! Happy Cooler Weather! Happy St. Francis Day! Happy One Week of Radiation! There's so much to be happy about! I have completed 5 radiation treatments....only 28 to go! Other than the drive, it's been pretty easy. The drive should be better this week....my appt is not during rush hour. Thank goodness! My skin is doing well with the radiation and is a very slight pink color. I'm putting aloe vera gel on the radiated area and hope my skin will tolerate the radiation for the duration of treatments.

Below are 4 photos. The first is of the kids and their friends at a triathlon this morning. The boys competed and did well. The second photo is of my radiation machine. It's a linear accelerator made by Varian Medical Systems.....brand new cutting edge machine. The third photo is me on the table ready for a treatment. I'm on the table less than 10 minutes after being zapped in 5 different "fields". The last photo is the supplier name on the machine.....my fab engineer buddies will laugh. It's Varian Medical Equipment not Varian Semiconductor Equipment maker of ion implanters....E500, E1000. Too funny!

Ode to St. Francis on his feast day........

Prayer of St. Francis
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace, Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy;
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Make it a terrific week!!! Love, srb