Today is Gamma Knife Day

I traveled down to Southern California to spend the day with Steve and Terry for Steve's Gamma Knife procedure. We left the house about 5:30 am and traveled down to Cedars-Sinai radiation center. We are  in the process of it right now. There is a lot of waiting time while the doctor's do their preparations. We just had breakfast. Steve had to wait until after this MRI to eat and it was hard to eat with the halo frame blocking his mouth.
These pictures were taken with PhotoBooth from my laptop. It looks like it reverses images so I hope you can decipher what's what.

This really says Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Lesley and Terry in the waiting room while Steve has his halo attached.

Cool looking science fiction helmet. This was placed over the metal halo frame. They then used the black measurer and placed it in each hole along this plastic helmet and called out the distance to his scalp.

Here's a picture of the back of Steve's head and a bad picture of his nice nurse. The beverage area is right outside our door.

Screw sizes and Iodine swab used when the halo was placed.

Other pieces used by the doctor to measure where to place the halo. First, they used a topical anesthetic at 4 locations around Steve's head, then swabbed each area with iodine, then they injected local anesthetic at each screw site.

Isn't he handsome? Kind of like Iron Man or a Transformer or a Cyborg :)