I was pushing through while feeling tired again this morning. Glad Eddie joined me today.
Like clockwork we pulled onto the Johns Hopkins Hospital campus just before 7:20am. Today was a big day; an appointment in the outpatient center with Dr. Kleinberg, blood work back in DC with Dr. West and a quick follow up with my primary physician.
I must have dosed off during the radiation treatment, which was nice because I felt a little more rested. It also made the treatment time feel even faster.
Dr. Kleinberg was full of personality today. He is always caring, but today he was rather chatty. He reminded us that with my treatments, stereotactic radiation, fractionated radiosurgery delivers the radiation in multiple (or fractionated) doses because normal brain tissue and nerves in the head tolerate the many smaller doses better than one large dose. So, with me now squarely in week four, the fractionated radiosurgery has started to take its toll, leaving me in need of rest and recovery.
I could feel it happening and knew it was time to limit myself. Eddie and I chatted through the schedule and decided to build afternoon naps into my day, work from home more (particularly from the comfortable confines of my bed) and reduce my workouts from three weekly sessions to two. I felt I should probably eliminate Saturday morning spin classes too.