Radiation Treatment
Enrique's radiation treatment was postponed for a week because his doctor had a family emergency.
On Thursday we should know the basic schedule for the treatment. It begins with a course of injections that will cause any remaining thyroid tissue to become thirsty for iodine. Then they'll give him a big dose of radioactive iodine, which the thyroid tissues will absord. Hopefully the radiation will cause the tissue to die.
He'll need to be alone in our house for 4-7 days. I'll stay with a friend to avoid the radiation.
The whole process should take 2-4 weeks.
On Thursday we should know the basic schedule for the treatment. It begins with a course of injections that will cause any remaining thyroid tissue to become thirsty for iodine. Then they'll give him a big dose of radioactive iodine, which the thyroid tissues will absord. Hopefully the radiation will cause the tissue to die.
He'll need to be alone in our house for 4-7 days. I'll stay with a friend to avoid the radiation.
The whole process should take 2-4 weeks.
posted by eliot at 10:58 AM
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