Update:
Betty went in on Tuesday for her procedure. In all, she was there for about 4 hours. Most of the time was spent getting an MRI and getting fitted with her gamma ray head frame.
The most “invasive” part of the procedure was getting the headframe attached. They literally screwed the headframe to her head so that the possibility of a mistake occurring would be eliminated. The last thing you want are the gamma rays to destroy the wrong nerve.That would have been disastrous.
The report, from my sister Josie was that Betty started to get anxious when they were ready to place her inside of the machine. She was moving about so much that the doctors requested that Josie try to calm her down. She had to talk her through the entire procedure from another room on a microphone. (Because of the radiation exposure, only Betty was in the exam room).
It took 30 minutes for them to complete the procedure. Afterwards, Betty was free to leave. Unfortunately, she started having a really bad headache. This is part of the side effects some people feel. Some other side effects Josie was to look out for would be: blood oozing from the pin sites and vomiting. She spent the rest of the evening in bed and on Vicodin.
Yesterday, Josie told me that she was feeling much better, however, towards the evening she started feeling pain in her jaw again. Discouraged, she thought the procedure didn’t work. However, the doctors explained that it can take up to a few months before any significant type of relief is felt. Hopefully for Betty, it’ll be sooner than later.
So there you have it, that is the procedure simple and fast. I’ll do a follow up in a few months to see how she has progressed and post it here.
