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		<title>Onconversations XXV &#8211; Part Four</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Right after I finish the last radiation treatment, I have an appointment to see the radiologist who has overseen the process. He&#8217;s the guy who shattered my dream of  having heroically weathered the long, lie-there-stock-still sessions with only a small dose of Valium by telling me that it wasn&#8217;t &#8220;that small.&#8221; But he is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Onconversations XXV-Part Three</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(I go into the treatment room with its black slab for lying on, the body mold that was made for me a couple of months ago and that I&#8217;d like to take with me and &#8220;install&#8221; as an artwork somewhere, and the white Varian Truebeam radiation behemoth&#8211;http://singularityhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/varian-medical-systems-truebeam.jpg&#8211;that will be rotating around me and focusing its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielmenaker.com/blog/2012/01/onconversations-xxv-part-three/</link>
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		<title>Onconversations XXV-Part Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(I go into the small waiting room&#8211;I think of it as the radiation greenroom&#8211;after putting on the gown for my last treatment. There I find the Thin Man again, waiting for his treatment, and I sit down next to him&#8211;there are only the two chairs.) THIN MAN:  We have to stop meeting like this. People [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Onconversations XXV-Part One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(In the Men&#8217;s Dressing Room, I&#8217;m putting on OATB, P, MM [Open At The Back, Please, Mr, Menaker]  gown in preparation for the last of eight SBRT treatments&#8211;http://radonc.ucla.edu/body.cfm?id=61&#8211;for the malignant nodules in the lower lobe of my left lung. The upper lobe was removed laparascopically almost four years ago, when a 2.5 centimeter adenocarcinoma was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielmenaker.com/blog/2012/01/onconversations-xxv-part-one/</link>
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		<title>Onconversations XXIV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Having completed five out of eight image-guided-radiation-therapy treatments for the small lesions in my left lung, I develop a rash on my side, chest, and stomach. This is to be expected&#8211;the little image-guided-radiation-therapy booklet they give you actually says, &#8220;A red and often itchy skin rash develops in the area exposed to the radiation after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Onconversations XXIII</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(I am meeting with the radiation oncologist after my fifth&#8211;of-eight SBRTs. Stereotactic body radiation treatments. Here is the machine they use&#8211;http://bit.ly/vLsIrQ&#8211;  although &#8220;machine&#8221; seems inadequate to the hulking but sleek white, rotating behemoth you lie beneath. Or semi-within. They offer you music while you lie stock still for 45-60 minutes. I have tried Bach&#8211;too agitated. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielmenaker.com/blog/2012/01/onconversations-xxiii/</link>
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		<title>Onconversations XXII</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(In the men&#8217;s dressing room, right outside the treatment areas with their huge, white, sleek machines that go tock when they are about to move their arms and tock-tock after they stop. And chime twice in an electronic-sounding way when the actual rays begin and once when they end.  There&#8217;s another guy here, also getting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielmenaker.com/blog/2011/12/onconversations-xxii/</link>
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		<title>Onconversations XXI-Part Two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Mercifully, I am fetched into the treatment room just after the dismal exchange with the Dour Man. The place has a huge, pure-white bloated-spider-looking machine with three or four arms, each with a different business end&#8211;white rectangle, something that looks like the metal eye of a Transformer, something else, and something else&#8211; behind a hard, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielmenaker.com/blog/2011/12/onconversations-xxi-part-two/</link>
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		<title>Onconversations XXI–Part One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(My first SBRT treatment is about to take place, finally, after many delays.  I get to the place ten minutes ahead of schedule, am told to go to the fourth floor, a familiar haunt by now, and I check in with the receptionist, who talks a mile a minute in a kind of phoneme-stingy way. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danielmenaker.com/blog/2011/12/onconversations-xxi-part-one/</link>
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		<title>Onconversations XX</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ME: (in a Pain Quotidien on Broadway, a chain of semi-communal-table breakfast-and-lunch restaurants which some call &#8220;Everyday Pain&#8221;): Oh no&#8211;you&#8217;re here! I thought we said 3:15. How long have you been here? FRIEND (looking up, with the most beautiful gray-blue eyes in the world, from her iPad): About a half an hour. I emailed you [...]]]></description>
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