12-11-09

9:45pm-Jeanie was told that Kecia was done with the radiation and heading back to have the
halo removed
1015pm-Jeanie was taken back to Kecia's room to wait for her...released shortly after
11;45pm-they headed for home

Sorry it took me so long to update this last bit, I worked today and didn't get the full story from Kecia until late this afternoon. It goes as follows:

Kecia ended up spending 7 hours laying on her back on top of 2 metal beams (they had to remove the "padding" in order to bend her body in the positions they needed). She was not allowed to take any of her pain meds that day. It took about 30 minutes to do each lesion and they would let her sit up for a few minutes between each. She said that she just had keep praying "God, please give me the strength to one more", because each time they would do a new one they had to use a screwdriver type thing to pull and push her skull into the correct alignment. She could actually feel her skull moving inside her head. It creeped her out very much and she had the overwhelming sensation that she just had to get out of there. But it kept going and going because they found not 4, but 12 lesions that had to be lasered. (don't know if I told you that in the last update) They were able to get 11 of them, but one of the original 4 had shrunk during earlier treatments and in doing so, moved outside the spectrum in which they were working. (I know that sounds confusing but it's hard to explain in just a few sentences) They will watch it closely and possibly do a different gamma radiation that will require several treatments, but no halo or long treatments like this one. So many people were praying that Kecia would feel the presence of God and his host of angels as they surrounded her and kept her safe. She appreciates those prayers because they worked. She did feel His presence and was greatly comforted by it. In fact, she said if it hadn't been for that, she doesn't know how she could have stayed like that for so long and would surely have made the doctors stop half way through.