Monica felt fine in the morning and spent the morning at home with Marley. Greg and Jesse took her for her second round of treatments in the afternoon. Today the procedure went very smoothly. We waited only about 10 minutes for the treatment and the treatment itself only took about 10 minutes.
The doctor wants Monica to have her eyes open during the radiation (not sure of the reason but I think there is less risk of damage?). The technologists had made some adjustments to Monica's radiation mask so that she could open her eyes (otherwise it was so tight that she couldn't open them). Unfortunately, with the adjustments Monica found the mask to be more uncomfortable. They are going to play with the mask a bit for next time but it is important that it not be made so loose that her head will move and so they will not want to do much.
Once again Monica was very calm and brave through the process. The technologists let us go in the room again and patiently showed/explained things to Jesse who had not been present for the first treatment.
Unfortunately, Monica started to feel quite nauseous around dinnertime and felt quite bad through the evening. The cookng smells of dinner seemed to trigger the nausea. She went to bed early and fell to sleep quickly.
Our plan for tomorrow is to be a little more careful to make sure that she is properly medicated with the anti-nausea medicine.
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