amityville horror

After a nights stay in the hospital, Marie was released. She went through the radiation well. She did have numbness in her head, but that's all. This type of radiation treatment is not very invasive. Only one night in the hospital for observation, and then home. This was so much better that surgery. And no rehab.

We drove home talking about how great this treatment was, with the total belief that it would work. They talked about possible side effects. How the radiation could kill good brain cells along with the bad ones. It came across as if side effects would be a rare thing.

Of course, a brain tumor is a rare thing. The type Marie had was very rare, and a recurrence is even more rare. So why couldn't she have side effects? We just didn't think about that. We looked at it as, what choice did we have? We couldn't let the tumor keep growing. And surgery was still too fresh to want to relive that nightmare. This was a cake walk. A walk in the park.

The next morning, when we woke up, Marie's eyes were swollen. I mean. so bloated that they were shut closed. And as hard as she tried, she could hardly open them, even enough to have any kind of sight at all. After a few hours of hard work, Marie was able to open her eyes just wide enough for me to see the whites of her eyes. But they wasn't any white. They were red. Blood red. No white at all. It was as if every blood vessel, she has in her eyes, ruptured. Her vision was blurred, and her eyes were in pain. She looked like she was in the Amityville Horror.

Where was that doctors phone number?