Photos:  1:31 p.m. Monday February 29, 2016

Brain cancer is...

...for super heroes!

Here's that long-awaited Darrell Hero Mask.  Some points of interest:

• Notice that it's bolted to the table.  
• The lasers are for precision sighting.  
• The special ray gun (I'll find out the real name tomorrow) is shown in Pic 3.  It's behind Darrell in the pic, but it revolves around him so that the radiation, although focused on the tumor, is delivered from many entry points.  This reduces potential damage to healthy tissue.

Brain Cancer Treatment Surprise! After completing the simulation, they delivered Darrell's first radiation treatment.  Phew!  That made us all happy because Darrell and his team (including you) can't worry again tonight.  You're probably wondering, as we did, whether it's okay that he doesn't start the chemo until tonight.  Dr. Dolkar said it's fine.

A total of 30 treatments, only 29 to go!

Gratitude journal entry:  How many hundreds of millions of dollars for that machine? Thanks, medical technology (brought to you by Alex).

Thanks for your good radiation wishes!