Come A Little Closer

Day Three and also the third day that I heard the song "Come a Little Closer" on the radio as I was getting radiated.  I thought "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons would be my theme song for these weeks, but now I am thinking that maybe I am inviting these rays to come a little closer, or maybe I need to listen to the entire song thoroughly for the message I may be missing out on.  (Nope.  Just looked it up and I gotta say I don't think I am missing out on any hidden messages there.)

Here is my selfie for the day:

Frustrated

Titled, "Frustrated" because shortly before I took this picture I received a call from Matthew that Lariska came home from school today sick.  I left for Physical Therapy at Froedtert at 10am and then stuck around the hospital for 1:15pm radiation. I got out of PT to find like four missed calls on my phone.  One from the school nurse, one from my mom, one from Matt, and one from...I am not sure...it probably wasn't related to Lari being sick.  Anyway...Lari has been complaining of a sore throat.  Matt has tonsillitis and is on antibiotics for it and you may remember back in February that Lari ended up in the hospital from being dehydrated due to Strep Throat. Well, I was not going to take any chances, so I called the pediatrician and waited on their Nurses Line for quite some time before finally getting through and made an appointment for 2:45pm.

I was not particularly looking forward to having to sit in the hospital between appointments for an hour, but I didn't mind that I was going to get to read my book for awhile.  Well, between calls to Matt, my mom, and the Ped. I had five minutes left before I had to be at radiation.  Sigh.

But, on the plus side, radiation was super-fast today.  On Monday and Tuesday they had to take some x-rays (I don't really know why - it has something to do with making sure the radiation is going to hit the right part of the body and not the wrong stuff.  You know...we wouldn't want to get extra poisonous horrific stuff places it doesn't belong, but it's okay to put it where there once was cancer?!?! So weird.), but today they didn't need to take any and so it was just positioning and re-positioning and taping and such.  I think it took maybe fifteen minutes.  And a few of those minutes were the "pleasantries" where we all asked each other how we were and that kind of thing.  It is kind of fun getting to know Barb, and Kacia, and Courtney.  They are all super-nice and answer all of my questions very easily.  And, they said I can bring my camera in any day I want to so I can add some visual aids to the blog.  I am going to try and do that tomorrow.  Yay!

After radiation, I headed home, grabbed Lariska, went to the pediatrician, found out she does indeed have Strep, went to the pharmacy, got her prescription (and eight new toothbrushes as well as some Children's Advil), went to Panera Bread and got some soup for her for dinner and then finally came home.  By the time I got here it was 4pm.  Sheesh!  Long, crazy, frustrating day.  I am glad it is now almost bedtime.  I, for one, am ready for bed!

Three down, twenty-seven to go.