Beginning Treatment

I started radiation treatment today! The plan is to treat five days a week for 27 sessions.  The first session today went very well, and was about 30 minutes long. The sessions will shorten as I progress through the treatment.  My doctors are expecting the first couple weeks of treatments to produce some swelling around the tumor causing headaches, fatigue and more seizures.  Later in the therapy I may experience hair loss. I will possibly have speech problems at some time during the treatment, but the radiologist said that I could have a net improvement in my speech.  This means that my speech may be better after the treatment than it was before I discovered the tumor.

1 down 26 to go!!!
The treatments are at 9:10 every morning, so please pray for me and the treatment team.

Proceeding with a plan

We have met with my oncologist and decided to proceed with radiation therapy.  We are hoping to begin my treatments no later than the week of May 24.  The treatments will take 5 to 6 weeks and the radiologist will determine how many sessions I will need.  Each session should last 10 to 20 minutes. Before I begin the therapy the radiologist will spend the time mapping out the tumor so he will know where he wants to focus the radiation and how strong of a dose to use.

Pray that the radiologist will have Godly wisdom in all the decisions he makes, and that I will respond well to the therapy he has prescribed for me.  Also pray that my wife and son will respond well to the added stress they will be under during the time of my treatment.