Y-90 Radiation Procedure

Y-90 radiation is a cool sounding procedure, and I have my first treatment tomorrow, 1/25, at UW Med Center.  I also had the mapping a couple weeks ago and it went smoothly.  I'll just outline briefly what the day looks like tomorrow, again for the purposes of sharing my experiences.

The Mapping procedure I had a couple weeks ago very similar to what I expect will happen tomorrow, but I was fully awake and conscious when they were operating on my liver because I needed to hold my breath a few times to allow them to take pictures.  After the mapping, I was just a little sore in my upper leg, but was able to walk out of the hospital without a wheelchair.  Felt fine after a day and returned to work two days following the procedure.

Tomorrow's Y-90 Treatment Timeline (based on the mapping procedure)
9:30am: Check in at admitting (get my bracelet, show insurance, sign HIPAA documents)
9:45am: Outpatient blood draw (draw blood from arm, not sure why they can't use my port smh)
10am: Check in at Interventional Radiology
10:30am: Get called in, change into gown, jump on the stretcher, check temp, blood pressure, O2, and answer a bunch of questions related to health
11:45pm: Get wheeled into the procedure room (a large room with a giant screen, lights, carts full of scalpels, sutures, catheters, and other medical equipment)
12pm: Procedure Start
  -  Lay out a bunch of sheets to isolate the area, sanitize
  -  Doctor walks in, then I receive an injection in the upper leg to numb the area that they will access the main artery that feeds the liver
  -  Feed the catheter through the artery up to my liver (behind the ribcage-ish)
  -  Send through tons of tiny Yttrium-90 beads (half the width of a human hair) through the catheter into the blood vessels that feed the tumors
  -  Seal up the artery bandage up the wound
2pm:  Wheel me in the stretcher to the outpatient procedure room and monitor to ensure the artery is sealed properly
4pm:  Head home to recover

The procedure tomorrow should be pretty straightforward, and I'm not worried at all.  I've read that the side effects from the radiation are nausea, fatigue, fever, pain, so I've taken tomorrow through Thursday off, with the hope of returning to work Friday.  I just ask that you send thoughts/prayers/vibes/juju/energy/mana/whatever else that the radiation is effective against the tumors to get rid of them all together.  I've also started the Triflurudine chemo pill regime, and I'm happy to say that there are no real side effects that I'm experiencing from them.  

I'll post another update with the results/side effects of the treatment and discuss anything else that I learn.  If you or anyone you know has any questions at all about this stuff, please feel free to reach out (email jeromeljimenez at outlook dot com), I don't mind at all sharing about this journey and comparing experiences, especially for someone just diagnosed or is going through the same thing.

Thanks for reading, talk to you all soon!

- Jerome