living in gratitude 34 : preparing for radiotherapy

Dr Jeannin treats cancer patients through acupunture, preparing the patient's body and boosting the immune system for chemo and radiotherapy before and after each treatment. He's got a fabulous reputation. He's another person in the team of people getting me better.

I laughed and said to him that he was putting a load more pins in me than last time : "this is necessary" he responded seriously, "it is to prepare you well physically and mentally for your treatment".

Mmmmm makes sense as I barely slept last night out of anxiety for what I have to go through.

I head to institut Marie Curie at 3PM Paris time today. The bag is packed with lots of creative goodies.

On a phone call earlier today with D from NY, we were looking for the positive points of having 120 hours of radiotherapy in the span of 6 days , being pinned down to a bed and unable to move for the whole 6 days ... I was having difficulty finding a positive aspect to this whole scenario(D had her radiotherapy over 6 weeks and said it was psychologically very difficult).

For a positive point she came up with the following: "this is actually great news : in one week, you are going in with cancer and you are coming out with it being treated. It's only going to take a week and then it is over."