3 hours, every Monday, Wednesday, Friday. 9 hours a week sitting in a chair, with my right arm all but unusable.
What to do, what to do?
Probably 75% or more of the patients there are sleeping during their treatment. When I was first there, I couldn't sleep whatsoever. I'm getting better with that now, but it's still not easy to sleep there unless I'm fully exhausted.
Sometimes I read whatever book currently is holding my interest. It's a bit difficult sometimes to get completely involved in a good book while on treatment however because there's always all kinds of alarms going off, or nurses and techs checking there, etc.
Many days, I'll bring a portable dvd player and set up a movie or tv show to watch to occupy my time. It's easier to deal with interruptions with that than a book because you can just hit pause. I never thought I'd be wanting to watch more things, considering I don't watch television at all.
Most of the time I'll waste time looking around the internet on my friend's netbook that he let me borrow or on my phone. I would play a game that I usually play but there's some port issues with the router that I can't fix.
Next post, I'll describe the process I go through each treatment.
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