Wow!

So friends I left off with Mike being at the Radiologist and me getting a call from him saying he was not having the treatment. After calming him down (I did not even know at this moment what I was calming him down from) I said I need to know what you are talking about. He proceeds to tell me that he could not do the test because they put you in a “tube” and it takes a few minutes because they have to get the exact measurements of everything to ensure they hit the radiation in the right spots and nowhere else. He could not do the “tube” he totally went into freak out mode. They were going to try to make his mask, he had to wear an awful mask for his treatment, you should have seen the picture of it on the previous blog, it was horrible. They put clay like stuff (its thin) over your face in order to make the mask, I mean can you imagine having that, not being able to see and just having that mess on your face?! It was a traumatic experience for him to say the least, I felt so bad for him, I mean he told me that he ran out of the building without his shirt just refusing to do anything they were trying to do. While he was gathering his thoughts and trying to make his way home, the nurse had called me from the radiation place and told me basically the same thing he had shared with me, she said that people do not like having it done, but she had never seen anyone like him (good grief!) She ask if I could come with him and we could try again, I told her I had no problem coming and trying to help him through it, this was not something they normally allow as far as someone coming back there through the process but they had to do something or he was not having any treatment. I made an appointment for a couple of days later, we thought he needed a couple of days to re-group. Mike got home, we talked about everything, he was beyond upset, again I felt so bad for him. He agreed for me to go to an appointment and see what would happen. After this fiasco I was back to wondering would treatment ever start! And remember they wanted to start chemo and radiation the same week, so I had to call and cancel the start of the chemo date due to the mask fiasco. I was determined we would get through this!

When Life Gives You Lemons…Make Lemonade or Margaritas, whichever suits your fancy!