The last week has been busy… well relatively speaking given my newly adopted OWL status (Oakville Woman of Leisure) 🙂 …

My MBA program resumed over the weekend, and I was able to attend all of the classes, under the close supervision of my awesome MBA teammates… who by the way, are way more strict than any of my other Jane-sitters! Despite the enhanced scrutiny, it was great to be out and about in society beyond my condo walls, and participating in a normal life activity. And I promise that I won’t over do it… if at any point the schoolwork becomes too much, I will pull the plug and postpone my classes until after treatments are done.

The other exciting news is that the pre-radiation appointments took place over the last couple of days as well. These are the appointments to essentially draw the map of the targeted radiation therapy that will be used to blast the rest of the tumours from my brain. The other part of this planning process is that the radiation team has essentially built me a custom goalie mask. This will be used also for applying the targeted treatments, as well as ensuring that my head doesn’t flop around while I’m being zapped.

This “zapping” is more technically known as Stereotactic Radiation Therapy (SRT). SRT is a specialized form of radiation treatment that utilizes a precisely focused beam of radiation to treat small, stereotactically defined, target lesions while minimizing irradiation of adjacent normal structures.

The other good news about this SRT treatment, is that while it is quite intensive, there are only five scheduled treatments… which is a far cry from the 30 treatments the last time I went through rads (which was post chemo and surgery, to boot). A few of you may recall that the last time, it was the rads that kicked my ass the most… so mentally preparing for five treatments is a lot less daunting this time around… But let’s hope that I don’t regret writing these words… However time will tell soon enough, as the treatments will be starting on January 23rd… it’s time to get this radiation show on the road!