Treatment starts this week.

Radiation tomorrow; chemo on Wednesday.

I'm still a little unclear on the scheduling of it, but Lila's not, of course.

She spent a LOT of Friday getting fitted for the arresting gear she's got to have to assure that she doesn't move when they shoot the radiation at her tumors. She said it was an agonizing experience, just getting the cast made. Yesterday, she and her daughter went wig-shopping. She tells me she's about decided in a 'pixie' cut item, which should look very cute on her. She has a certain gamin quality about her, a sort of Audrey Hepburn aura, but red-headed...

She'll be getting what I understand is a pretty standard chemo regimen, two drugs which attack the dna of the cancerous cells and aim at preventing further metastasis, and one drug--for which she had to sign a special dispensation, because it is dangerous, possibly life-threatening--which works to prevent the tumors from making more blood vessels from which to feed. Her cancers do not appear to have invested any of her major blood vessels, luckily.

We started talking about when she'll be able to travel...not for a pretty good while, yet. Maybe in October or November, depending. She'll come to me; or at least, I will not go there, wherever it is we are able to rendezvous when the time comes...I don't know how long is needed for a person to recover from the treatments. Anybody?