Radiation Treament
After being postponed for a month, Enrique's radiation treatment was again postponed, but just for a day. It will be on Friday.
He's nervous. This will be a higher dose than it was last year. But, they are giving him anti-nausea medication this time. (Only because we asked - I'm not sure why they don't just offer it.)
We don't know the time of the radiation treatment yet. It will involve a short trip to the hospital where he'll be given a radioactive pill. Afterwards I'll drop him off at home and take him back home. Then we'll say good bye for a 5-7 days because it will be unsafe for me to be around him.
My mother, with help from my father, have been cooking up a storm. Our refrigerator is stocked with food for him to eat during that time.
Right now he is a on a low-iodine diet which will encourage his body to absorb the radioactive iodine. All the food they (and I) have prepared has had to adhere to this diet.
He's nervous. This will be a higher dose than it was last year. But, they are giving him anti-nausea medication this time. (Only because we asked - I'm not sure why they don't just offer it.)
We don't know the time of the radiation treatment yet. It will involve a short trip to the hospital where he'll be given a radioactive pill. Afterwards I'll drop him off at home and take him back home. Then we'll say good bye for a 5-7 days because it will be unsafe for me to be around him.
My mother, with help from my father, have been cooking up a storm. Our refrigerator is stocked with food for him to eat during that time.
Right now he is a on a low-iodine diet which will encourage his body to absorb the radioactive iodine. All the food they (and I) have prepared has had to adhere to this diet.
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