February 18, 2008 - First SRS treatment

Today is the first of two SRS treatements that Mati is going to have to try and kill her pituitary macroadenoma. I was to arrive at CSU Vet school at 8:00am. Once there they listened to her her heart and lungs. Things looked good. Mati was moved to 2pm for her SRS. So we went back to the hotel. Mati had 1/2 of her normal breakfast. Then we hung out at the hotel until 11am and then we went back to the vet school. Mati was ready to go back for anesthesia at 1pm. First they put her in the oxygen chamber for 30 minutes and then put her under anesthesia. At 2pm Mati was taken to the radiation room. There they positioned her on the table and got her aligned to the CT scan that was taken on Friday February 15,2008. Then they gave her 7 radiation beams with each of them being 3 grays. The alignment and radiation took about 1 hour. After that she was taken back to the anesthesia room to recover. Once she was awake and breathing on her own she was put back into the oxygen chamber to help her breath. After 30 minutes of that she was brought to the human waiting room and was put in my arms to let her relax and recover. By now it was about 4:15pm and we stayed there until 6:45pm just to make sure she was ok. That night she was very tired.