The Oncologists

First one was the Medical Oncologist. This is the dude that gives the poison shots....
just kidding.....these drugs are really powerful!! Had my blood drawn (by needle not by pen and paper) and they checked to see if I was a "blue blood", I guess. I wasn't.
That all appeared to be OK. He's a good guy, graduate of "THE USC" (for those of you who are not edumacated that is THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. He sent me to the Radiation Oncologist.
This guy is pretty bright.....he's got a PHD in something or other (medical I would guess). There's more questions and answers. He tells me to come back in a couple of days and we'll get fitted for the ZAP of radiation.
In the mean time I had a PORT-A-CATH installed in my upper left arm. Not too bad, they managed to numb the area they were gonna cut into. This was on a Friday morning before 8:30 and I still had to work that day.
Saturday morning, before 7AM they had me in the radiology department at the local hospital for an MRI of the brain (could have saved all of us some time and me some money if they had listen when I told them the skull was empty).
Back to the Medical guy for a CHEMO-CLASS. That's where they tell ya what to expect after the chemo treatments begin. Doesn't sound like a lot of fun. Bunches of could's and maybe's and if's and and's. We'll just have to see.
Next trip was to the Radiation Doc. They took some x-rays and some measurements. Then the little lady said "I'm gonna tattoo you in three places." Wham-bam, thank ya ma'am. Hurt like hell, let me tell ya. Much more than having the Port-A-Cath put in.
I almost came up off of the x-ray table and probably would have except for the big old x-ray machine over my face.
Left there and went to the hospital again, this time for another CT. Seems they couldn't use the one I just had a couple of week previous.
Medical Doc starts scheduling everything.....begin Chemo on Monday mornnin, early, followed by radiation. Chemo once a week and Radiation 5 times.