So... Today was a rather eventful day... For both good and ill, mostly good. I spent half the day at the docs, so there was no 1400hr data series.
Date Time HR D Dose
9/20/2012 10:00 164 0 115
9/20/2012 10:00 164 2 6.8
9/20/2012 10:00 164 3 4.0
9/20/2012 10:00 164 6 0.97
9/20/2012 10:00 164 12 0.62
9/20/2012 14:00 168 0
9/20/2012 10:00 164 6 0.97
9/20/2012 10:00 164 12 0.62
9/20/2012 14:00 168 0
9/20/2012 14:00 168 2
9/20/2012 14:00 168 3
9/20/2012 14:00 168 6
9/20/2012 14:00 168 12
9/19/2012 18:00 172 0 107
9/19/2012 18:00 172 2 5.5
9/19/2012 18:00 172 3 2.7
9/19/2012 18:00 172 6 0.97
9/19/2012 18:00 172 12 0.62
9/19/2012 22:00 176 0 116
9/19/2012 22:00 176 2 5.3
9/19/2012 22:00 176 3 2.7
9/19/2012 22:00 176 6 0.94
9/19/2012 22:00 176 12 0.57
As I said, there was no 1400 series, so I'm going to include the 1800 series for the day over day.
Distance -- 9/13 ------ 9/14 ----- 9/15 ----- 9/16 ----- 9/17 ----- 9/18 ----- 9/19 ----- 9/20
0 >1000 >1000 790 580 485 335 190 107
2 >1000 240 70 38 20 13 9 5.5
3 800 40 15 7 6 4.7 4.0 2.7
6 600 22 5.3 2.5 1.7 1.6 1.0 0.97
12 480 9 2.4 1.1 1 0.75 0.8 0.57
Tomorrow, I'm going to restart the day over day data series, starting with a 9/20 baseline.
I'm pretty happy with where where I am, given what happened today. By the 2200 measurement I was just about safe for my wife to sit with me on the couch touching me.
Yeah... we're still at least a week away from sleeping together again unfortunately; but that just means the radiation is still working... Which is kinda important...
We also took another series of residual measurements today
Date -- Time -- Delta -- Distance -- Dose uSv/h -- Object
9/20 1000 164 0 7.52 Shirt (worn for 3 days, dropped to 5 after 12 hrs)
9/20 1000 164 0 4 Handkerchief (used repeatedly)
9/20 1000 164 0 3 Wet towel after shower (0 dose after 12 hrs)
9/20 1000 164 0 1.87 Couch seating area (used constantly 7 days)
9/20 1000 164 0 1.23 Bedding (used for 7 days)
9/20 1000 164 0 0.4 Laptop (used constantly 7 days)
9/20 1000 164 0 0.4 Glass of water sitting for hours (used)
9/20 1000 164 0 0.2 Plate (used repeatedly 7 days)
9/20 1000 164 0 0.2 Spoon (used repeatedly 7 days)
9/20 1000 164 3 1.16 Seating area at other end of couch
9/20 1000 164 6 0.62 6 foot line from seat, open air, no objects
9/20 1000 164 9 0.92 Closest seat on other couch across room
9/20 1000 164 12 0.72 12 foot line, open air but some objects in area
9/20 1000 164 15 14 Toilet (used repeatedly)
9/12 1000 0 25 0.14 baseline 25ft from seating area before dose
9/20 1000 164 25 0.43 25ft from seating area, unchanged since 24hr
The biggest surprise was how much the shirt I'd been wearing the last couple days (I should mention, I'm barely sweating at all, because I'm basically lying on my ass all day; and because I'm severely hypothyroid) retained, giving off a dosage of 7.52uSv/h a few minutes after I took it off, and was still at over 5 uSv/h 12 hours later.
Given how little the bedding or couch retained, I was really expecting the shirt to retain less; and to decay faster than that.
We also did a shower skin test, checking various areas on my skin before and after a vigorous shower (after not showering for a couple days), and found that I consistently dropped about 1 uSv/h over my entire body. My wet towel registered 3 uSv/h immediately after use. Funny thing though... It was indistinguishable from background after hanging up for 12 hours.
I realize this whole series of data is anal and nitpicking... and if you're not interested it must seem endless... But I haven't seen any other thyroid cancer survivors doing this; and I know I wanted this data before I went through the radiation, so I'mna keep doing it for a while.
I'll probably do this level of detail for another week; which will bring us to the "two weeks" line that the doctors recommend for "restricted" contact and limited work time etc...
After that, I'll probably do it as a one measurement a day thing, until my levels fall below significantly above background.
