Monday, 3 August 2009

We were up early this morning and off to Radiation at 8.15am. Drew was very excited and looking forward to it, the same couldn't be said of Mum. The packing him part takes the longest, then we all leave the room and he is in there by himself for about 3 minutes whilst they shield his head and then they go in and remove the filter from the machine and he is in there for another 17 minutes, before we all go back in and they turn the table around and do the other side. My stomach churns while he is in there. Around lunch time Drew became sick, he was quite chirpy in between vomits. He met a volunteer ward granny, Barbara, who will come in a couple of times a week to visit Drew. We didn't go down for Drew's afternoon session of radiation until 6.00pm and as Drew was vomiting, they had to keep stopping and we didn't get back until 9.00pm. He was zonked and still vomiting, they gave him an anti nausea drug he hadn't had before and that did the trick, he slept until 8.00am the next morning, to start all over again.