25th August 2011
The rule 80/20 seems to hold true. And I am going to tell you why. I have already undergone chemotherapy which is the lynchpin of my whole treatment and the radiotherapy (which is now underway) is supposed to be sort of a safety catch that ensures the successful finish. So, the 20% of the treatment is being done now, but the pain felt accounts for 80% of the suffering over the past 5 months.
First things first, the radiotherapy has been going fine. I have my last day scheduled tomorrow finally. Regarding the technical issues, I tried to delve into how chemotherapy works, but after I saw the service room for the huge linear accelerator I stared in awe. It is simply unbelievable how it all works and for me hardly possible to explain the process it operates.
Alrite, this is what wikipedia has to say:
A linear particle accelerator is a type of particle accelerator that greatly increases the velocity of charged subatomic particles or ions by subjecting the charged particles to a series of oscillating electric potentials along a linear beamline.
I sincerely hope it is clearer now :)
At the beginning of the radiotherapy, I went for a number of entrance tests. The computers calculated the exact coordinates for the X-ray machine to be used. Here is one page, you will see only a tangle of meaningless (to me) numbers:
There were at least 12 such pages, and hey, these little numbers save lives after all!
Here is a sketch of the planned area to be X-rayed (the red mark):
As far as side effects, when I got asked how I felt, I said: Munch on a razor for 5 minutes, hit your tongue with a sledgehammer and take a lighter to burn your gums, ohh yeah, and swallow a couple of nails to properly irritate your throat. I have to gargle some smelly syrup and agrimony tea, as well, to prevent me from any possible inflammations in my mouth and throat.
Let's look on the bright side, my blood cells reading has become normal finally - immunity restored!
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