June 28/2017

Well I have two radiation treatments undear my belt. Eighteen left to go. Yippie the worst part about it so far is the drive to and from the Cross. Yesterday my appointment was at 4:15 pm so I had to drive home through rush hour traffic. I almost lost my mind. For those of you who know me well you know I have always had road rage. I dont do anything about it I just yell and get mad inside my car. But yesterday was a doozie. I mean what genius decided to do road repair on the Gibbons highway at 5:30pm? the traffic was lined up for miles and miles. I have nevear seen anything like it. Couldn’t those workers go have supper from 4:30 to 6:00? The person who told those workers to work at that time should have had to be sitting in that line for almost 2 hours. Ok enough road rage on paper I am getting all worked up just writing this. 😊

So this is how radiation works for those of you who don’t know. You are sent to a certain station, I don’t know how you get which station, but mine is station 8. You check in at the front desk and remember you show the red card to get the green paper ? Then you give them your birthday and spell your last name. ( did I say this was never done in Mexico ? They always remembered my birthday, and they know how to spell lol lol ).  Anyway then you go to you station put your green sheet of paper in the back wire box and change into the hospital neglige. Then sit in the waiting room, yesterday I was the only person sitting there in the whole basement of the Cross. It was so weird, nobody else around at all, and I had to wait 15 minutes. Then they come and got me, yup again with the birthday and spelling of my name. Then the technician tells me to lay down on the couch. I looked around for a couch ?  I mean I don’t know about anybody else but my couch is not 1/8 of an inch thick covered in plastic with a white sheet over it. I said you mean on the bed there? She says yes yes on there. I go to the very narrow, very cold, 1/2 a single bed size table I would call it. I was a little nervous I want to keep it real, but it was really very easy I didn’t feel a thing they did tell me it will take about 2 weeks before I feel the actual burn.so it went pretty good. BUT then I saw this sign on the ceiling. You will not believe what it said. I mean really, everyone who gets radiation lays down on that bed in some form or another and most look at the ceiling..the sign says……CAUTION…in big letters like that then it goes on to say. Avoid exposure, laser radiation is emmenent from this aperture.. I am like ya think? Really? You can’t make these things up. So there I lay getting radiated.  Yup I sure did.. Who was the genius that decided to put that on the ceiling I wonder?   For all the ” patients” to see. You need to laugh at these things or you could go absolutely crazy.  

Today as I was sitting in the waiting room, again in my neglige waiting my turn, there were actually people waiting today. I was deep in thought looking at my FB on my phone. I felt someone standing close to me but I didn’t look up. Then she picked up this big old cow bell and rand it, I almost fell out of my chair, I dropped my phone on the floor, it scared the beegeses out of me. Everyone around me laughed, I didn’t find anything funny. I didn’t even know what was going on. The elderly lady took my hand and apologized she said she didn’t mean to scare me, she then told me that I would get to ring that bell when I finish my radiation…oh that’s what it was for? We both laughed. I then noticed a little plack on the wall that said : Ring Out, ring this bell, three times well, its toll to clear the sky, my treatment’s done, this course is run, and I am on my way.  I look very forward to ringing that bell at the end of July. But I will warn people before. Lol 

I am going to see my honey this weekend,can’t wait. We have not had much quality time together for a long time, I was either sick or broken lol. I hope everyone has a wonderful long weekend. Spend time with those you love, life is short, and time goes by so fast.❤️

Today’s saying: A thousand moments that I had just taken for granted, mostly because I had assumed that there would be a thousand more. 😘

Beth 😘