Wednesday which has some date (I think the 25th)

I have finally enjoyed radiation therapy. It's been a long wait, but it is actually very cool. OK technically it warms me, if my calculations are correct (which is very unlikely) the radiation warms the tumor by about 1/2000 degree centigrade (very likely off by a factor of 1000 one way or the other). The x-ray source rotates in a circle pointing x rays in. The week of "centering" was done to do just what it says -- make sure the tumor is at the center of the circle so it always gets irradiated while the disk of surrounding healthy tissue just gets irradiated briefly as the beem circles centered on the center of the circle which is malignant (see how I illustrated uncontrolled multiplication with a nearly neoplastic repitition of "center"). SO it seems, I am in a good mood. For one thing, I have experienced no detectible side effects. I am also getting chemo -- 2 hours of infusion each Monday and a water balloon slowly pushing fUracil in me all week. The water balloon is a bit of a bother (does have the advantage that I am short and the tube is long so when I forget I have it on and it falls to the floor it doesn't pull on the needle in the port). I won't know if the therapy has worked until hmm 4 weeks 3 days more therapy then scheduling a CAT scan or MRI then getting it hmmm Since the chemo is very similar to chemo used before, I am almost optimistic.