C Remains (the cancer chronicals): RADIATION

Sorry about the lack of Blog updates in the last most important parts of all of this, I blame that on myself sorry. It seemed like I just kept putting it off and finding other things to fill my time with, journaling and recording what is going on seems to, like always in my life, seems to be consistently placed on the back burner. So sorry to keep you all in the dark because of it, but we will fill you in. So we checked in on the 14^th of June and started it all. I think in the past blogs we got to Day 2 well a lot has happened since then. Chad had a week of full body radiation that he handled in all witnesses eyes incredibly well. He was nauseas and handled it by eating French fries and mcdoubles. Not like the most of us would do it, but we all know he doesn’t do things like the most of us and that is why we love him so much. So I made countless run to McDonalds, met some friends there each time, in fact one day met a couple from Germany and was able to practice a bit while we waited in line for 15 minutes, brought me some joy. Here are some pics of the radiation. It was morning and evenings for a week. Then after that was all over, chad received an incredibly large dose of chemotherapy, that is meant to be the next big gun they bring out to zap this thing. That again he handled amazing, he was drugged most of the day on Benadryl and when he was awake he ate mac and cheese and chili to curb the nausea. The nurse couldn’t believe it and just looked on in worry and disgust, I think mostly because she would rather pick up regurgitated crackers than mac and cheese and chili, but he kept it down and all onlookers were again in amazement at his ability to handle such a task. The dose lasted four hours and the nurse was in about every 15 minutes to check his vitals for possible problems, but he did great. He then had two days where he got to rest if you can even call it that, it was two days where they didn’t do anything else to his body.