Yesterday was the last session of my 35 days of radiotherapy treatment. The first day of treatment was 5th September, which I thought was just a calibration run, but last Friday I was told that was actually day one of my 35.
We drove to that first treatment and were given a list of appointments for the following week. That was the routine for the following 7 weeks. There was one day where the machine was having scheduled maintenance, and another day where the clinic rang after I had left home because the machine was broken.
So that's 34 days of 130km and 1 day of 90km making 4510km, riding in a taxi/ambulance, charged at 1€20 per kilometre. 5412€, plus about 10€ of fuel for our car. All the taxi costs are covered by the state health system.
On each voyage I drank on average 550ml of water or cordial, meaning I drank almost 20 litres en route to the hospital.
Over the course of the seven weeks I have taken 5 boxes of imodium, and 1½ mega boxes of Smecta. I also had a course of Racecadotril.
All this for about 8 minutes a day in a particle accelerator, at least 4 minutes of which was scanning me to make sure my bladder was full, my bowel empty, and I wasn't about to fart.
I now have to retrain myself to eat real food. I have no idea how long that will take.
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Simon, we're very happy that your ordeal is over and that you can start enjoying life fully again. We hope this is the end of the stress for you.
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