Music and Rads

You could do some soothing ocean waves, or night sounds, or soft piano/harp/cello music if you don't want to ruin your favorite songs (although I don't think it would have ruined mine for me; I wish I would have thought of/asked if I could have done that myself). Not very long; I would say not more than 3 or 4 songs at most. Good luck! Ruth

I took a favorite CD of mine.  The only problem is that whenever I hear it now, I immediately think of rads.  Ugh.

Edited to add:  Just saw the last sentence in your first paragraph.  That's what happened with me!

By looking at your stat, you would only stay under machine less than one minute, no need to play any music of yours, you will be in and out in a flash!

More like about 10 minutes (depends on exactly what fields they use) once everything is routine. Mine was get in the room, get positioned with the nudging around that went with that, then from the first machine angle (medial) there was one long field (~30 seconds beam-on time) and two short fields (<10 seconds each), then the machine swings around to the other (lateral) side and does three similar fields, with time in between each field for the machine to make its adjustments. 

The boost was one field and beam-on time was less than a minute but still took setup and all.  The techs and doc kept telling me the boost would be much faster.  LOL -- I told them I was glad they were excited but the actual treatment time was the least of it compared to getting there and home again.  I was just happy that the boost treatment field was smaller.

Honestly, I'm in and out in about 10 minutes, maybe a couple more but not by much. And like someone else, I get 3 zaps on one side, rotate Wall-e and then 3 zaps on the other side.  Each time its one "long" and 2 short but in as much as I am holding my breathe for all of them, trust me, its just not that long.

I'm on my stomach, too, normal breathing (although sometimes I find I try to hold my breath to avoid the zaps and then I inevitably run out of air and need to take lots of little breaths).

Just finished #21 of 30. I'm down to < 10 minutes in room, most of it is them lining me up. I get ~ 20 sec. on my left side and then it swings around and zaps ~ 20 sec. on right. Wouldn't think of bringing music, I just tuned out everything, and hop out of there. Want no memories of this when I'm through, definitely not when listening to my favorite music -- UGH.

One of the techs just asked me yesterday, "What kind of music do you like?"  Wracking my brain to find the most mainstream artist I like, I ended up saying, "Lilith Fair stuff," and she still didn't know what I was talking about, argh.  So I said "Sarah McLachlan," and she said she'll try and find me something similar.  We'll see!  (Amazingly enough, my surgeon played her Pandora station during surgeries, which was based upon Sarah McLachlan & the Indigo Girls and thus had all of my favorite music on it without me even having to ask for it! )

I'm usually in the room less than 10 minutes, too.  I get approximately 22-25 seconds of zapping from one angle, then a quick 2-second zap, then the thing swings around and gives me 22-25 seconds from the other angle.  The part that takes the longest, actually, is the techs trying to calm me down enough so that I can relax my body into the correct position (instead of being tense, arching, crying, not breathing well, etc!)