Radiotherapy patient or sheep?
I thought I would post about my experience in radiotherapy and see if others feel the same way. On the whole I have found it a highly dehumanising experience. In the clinic I go to they se...
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Hi @Vangirl, I am due to start radiation in late November or early December (depends on recovery from surgery) and am so worried about it. I really hate that they have non-patients in the 'gowned-up patient' area. I am also very uncomfortable about lying on a bed with nothing covering my horrible scar and anyone being able to look at it. And what if they expect me to remove my headwear??? I don't know what I will do then.
I had an MRI in April and had to have an IV line for the dye, this part of the procedure was done in the waiting room with no curtain around me and with a youngish non-patient sitting there watching, this single experience has been the absolute worst part of this whole situation for me.
I think I will take on some of the advice that you have been given and write to the hospital concerned (even though it happened in April).
You would have finished your rads by now. I wish you the very best for the next step in this long process.
Take care.
PS. Sometimes it is the littlest things that make the biggest difference.