Day 19 of Proton ...complete! Woke up 15 minutes early on Mondays to place LMX4 (lidocaine) and tagaderm on Nicholas' port for it to be accessed for the week. Normal Monday labs get drawn and back to sedation .... I really hate him having to go through this process.

After treatments we place Biafine cream on his skin in the radiation fields. It helps promote healing and calming the skin. About an hour after we got home he was missing his second patch of hair above his scar line. It's nothing like chemo where it gradually sheds - when this happens it like someone wiped his head bald in spots. His hair is coming in is so blond you can barely tell he's missing patches. The hair follicles are burnt and damaged from the radiation and it takes up to 4-5 months to start growing again in those areas if it ever does in fact come back.