I had the Tomo machine break down while I was in it. They are like MRI/CT scanners and all of a sudden everything shutdown, went quiet, then dark.

As I recall, it was still just in the scan phase when it went down. They pulled me out, then in about a half hour got it running again and started over.

It is the only Tomo machine in San Diego and I never asked in event it really broke-down if they could switch me to one of the Varian IMRT units.

They told me except for weekends and holidays they didn't want any unavoidable breaks in treatments. Since I wasn't given Chemo, maybe the reason was that they were relying only on the Tomo to knock down the cancer cells and keep them from multiplying.

Nevertheless, one day during my last week they couldn't treat me because I was throwing up so bad -- hours later they gave up and sent me home with several bottles of Zofan.

It was my last week and I was in boost so they said the delay wouldn't matter any more.