What a week.............

On Monday the Groshong catheter placemnet went fine and even though it sits in the middle of my chest doesn't bother me at all.
On Tuesday the Bronchoscopy went well.....but no snooze. I had to gargle
awful tasting stuff, a numbing solution to snort into the back of my throat, a numbing mist to inhale for 5 minutes
and 4 Q-Tips with numbing gel sat in my nose for a few minutes before we got started. It helped to have drugs on board too. After the prep it all went well.
The doctor
said he didn't see much and did take a few biopsies, I don't have the report yet.

The aspiration of the thyroid nodule is delayed until Monday 3/15.

Well, I went to the radiology dept. today and
I had this face mask made which I get to wear and is
bolted to the table for each of my treatments, about 35 of them,
thank God they don't last too long.
It's a plastic mesh that is in a frame, heated up, placed over the face and the frame is pushed down to the table
and bolted there until it hardens. The mask is used to keep my head in an exact position
and my chin tilted up and out of the radiation beam as
it circles around and fires at the nodes in my neck.
While this is going on more scans are being done with measurements
and markers all to be calibrated so treatment can start Monday.
I plan to make the mask into a planter when I get done.
I should have taken a Xanax before I went and will now from now on.
That picture looks frightful and IF I was claustrophobic
it would have been bad....but I'm not.... so it's
not as bad as it looks

The blue catheter in the middle of my chest is the Groshong
catheter that was put in on Monday and I'll receive chemo
drugs through it.

Tomorrow, Thursday I have chemo training ...hmmmm
should be interesting.