First Day of radiation

Today was the start of radiation. Despite her fever this weekend, they decided to go ahead and start her treatment as planned. I didn't get the chance to post yesterday but she had to go in to the clinic because they discovered a possible bacterial infection in her blood culture from Sunday. She has to get rocephin by IV for a few days to take care of it but they're not overly concerned about it because she's doing fine now. Tomorrow we should find out exactly what the bacteria is. This does mean no swine flu- yeah! Radiation went well for her. We got to stay with her until she was out and then we saw her when she was done. The process takes about 20 min. but with the anesthesia it stretches her time to about an hour. The recovery room has very comfortable warm beds so Rachel does not like to wake up. I think she'd sleep in there all day if we didn't come in and wake her! She was pretty crabby for a while afterward but she's doing fine now. It's just going to take her a little while to adjust to getting anesthesia everyday. She also had to go to clinic and the audiologist today so I understand her being so cranky! It would be nice to just have one appt. a day.

This is Rach getting her vitals done in the playroom. She's really good at it. She told the nurse, "right here leg" when she went to put the blood pressure cuff on.

This is her in the actual proton radiation machine. If you want to see it in action there's a link on the side of the blog. It's an amazing piece of equipment.

The recovery room. The hose blows warm air into the blanket and the bed is nice and toasty-

I'd love to crawl in there with her!