Ox Fall Down

Matchday 10: what happens when you're late to treatment? Phil calls and asks where you are. "I'm at the Beacon Hill Pub. What do you guys want?" Phil orders a Bud Light and you can hear Ron in the background ordering Heinekens. You're late because at noon you could barely keep your eyes open. And your short-cut behind the Christian Science Center turns into a long-cut. And you stop on Boylston to talk to Kenny about his trip to Tokyo.

Sweating and heart beating fast you lay yourself down on the platform. All business today. X-rays are finished without you knowing it. They finish the first field when you think they're just finishing the last x-ray. Machine is working well and the second field is finished lickety-split. Right on. You're done after 40 minutes. When you lower your arms they react like they did when you were a kid and forced them out against the door jambs for a minute. They take on a life of their own, floating away. You have no control and start laughing. Phil asks what's wrong? and your arms float up again to the ceiling.

Cyn and Alessia come down the hall to see the room. Because you were late and other patients are waiting you know the tour will be brief. Until Phil and Ron get a look at the girls. The boys drop the tour into a lower gear.

Key fact: the lenses are radioactive for three weeks after treatment finishes. The center stores them for a month before shipping them out to the recycling facility. They're melted down and recast for other patients. Hmmm. Didn't know that.