Seen quickly. Electrodes measuring the dose are just during the first week to check things out. Still weird and a bit frightening with the big machine so near the face and the bed so high up. I have to put cream called Dexeryl on the area a few hours after the treatment and wash the cream off in the shower the next day before the next treatment.
I am struck by the politeness and gentleness of everyone in the oncology wing - everyone in the waiting room says hello and goodbye to each other and smiles, a small way of acknowledging that we'd all really rather be doing something else but here we are anyway so we might as well smile and wish each other a good day. There is a certian complicity in cancer; we are all in the same boat more or less after all.
Today I am grateful for the lady who brings the tea trolley and serves a nice mint tea and the fellow patient who gave me her biscuit allocation when she heard me say that I hadn't eaten breakfast yet.
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