1st Radiation Appointment - help!

Hardy, if this is your first consultation, that is, you haven't met with the radiation oncologist at all, then this will be the meeting at which she or he makes recommendations about your treatment and talks about the process of radiation. There will probably be a brief physical exam and a health history. At this initial meeting you might also meet a nurse who will tell you about what kind of skin protocols this doctor recommends, or they might leave this for a later appointment. It would certainly be okay to bring a friend, I'd think, they'd only have to step out for the physical exam. I didn't, but I saw other patients at my rads clinic who had friends or family with them at various times. This is the meeting at which you'll get the most amount of information, and also a stage where you need to decide whether you want to do the radiation at all -- so if it's helpful for you to have a second pair of ears/someone you can talk things over with later, that's a good reason to bring someone. If you've already had that meeting, then this planning session will be measurements, tattoos, and so on, and I think anyone who came with you would have to stay in the waiting room.